Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema, "Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict" (Brill, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Role of Weapons in Violence
Tensions arise often in settings of diversity, because people have different interpretations of how temporal forms or material objects would be organized. So also the ways in which diversity is organized by the state is hardly ever neutral and might lead certain temporal formations to become things of things of conflict. And I would like to direct attention also to the first chapter written by Unisaram Ivar on the role of weapons in in Iran and militia fighting Islamic State. The weapon is the best friend and it's something that you share with your peers in a micro combat zone.
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