...—“territoriality” and “compensation”—have structured both the violent conflicts discussed and subsequent attempts at peace restoration. The essay concludes with a brief anthropological discussion of the relationship between ontology and politics. Whereas recent theorizations of Amazonian cosmic economies of...

...Jack Miles Burt Robert A. , In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 ), 382 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz...

...: Peace by Other Means, Part 5 CONFLICT, PEACE, AND SOCIAL REFORM IN INDIGENOUS AMAZONIA A Deflationary Account Carlos Fausto, Caco Xavier, and Elena Welper Translated by David Rodgers Past processes of intense sociocultural transformation in Amazonia, led by indig- enous...

...Edith Hall The earliest ancient Greek text to narrate the resolution of a large-scale conflict by judicial means is Aeschylus's tragedy Eumenides , first performed in Athens in 458 BC. After explaining the historical context in which the play was performed—a context of acute civic discord and the...

...Randy Malamud Saleem H. Ali, ed., Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 406 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove, 2006...

... slave the object of cultic worship by both masters and slaves. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 slavery slave revolt ancient Greece slave culture hero cult conflict resolution Symposium: Peace by Other Means, Part 2 SLAVES, STORIES, AND CULTS...

... Jews in Christian territories, or for the outright expulsion or conversion of these groups. On the Islamic side, a number of Muslim authors voiced the claim that Muslims should emigrate from Christian territories. The article seeks to show how these polemical voices argued against known opponents but...

... subsistence agricultural people that also hunts, and their goat-and-cattle herding neighbors, the Turkana and Dodoth peoples. “Half-trust,” as some of the Ik call it, works to prevent the escalation of conflict. While the Ugandan groups have been disarmed by their government, the Kenyan Turkana, armed with AK...

...Richard Ned Lebow This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” argues that the drive for self-esteem, achieved by gaining honor or standing, has been a root cause of violent conflict and war throughout history and that peace-making that does not take account of what...

...Yvonne Friedman Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin...

... in its orientation—also questions the validity of Jürgen Habermas's premises regarding the ethics of communication: the scope given to speculative reason and the effectiveness of an explicative metadiscourse for clarifying misunderstanding or resolving conflicts; the possibility of authentic...

... “blurred genres” is used to think through the fuzzy properties of this period's bilingualism and to argue that to understand the boundaries between English and French as blurred is revealing of the linguistic and social tensions that were the product of conflict between two closely intertwined cultures...

... this essay nor the symposium in which it appears advocates a simple application of conflict-prevention or -resolution mechanisms from particular cultures to other emic contexts. The point, rather, is to seek more general theoretical principles wherever they are to be found, given repeated failures of...

... detail non-Western and premodern European means of keeping peace that modern theorists of conflict resolution are reluctant to credit or incompetent to assess. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 PEACE BY OTHER MEANS Symposium on the Role of Ethnography and...

... access to legal means and were forced either into alternative dispute resolution or into autocoercion, in which marginalized people presented unity to outsiders to avoid state interference. This proposition constitutes a relevant advance in relation to previous approaches to conflict and harmony in the...

... best allow harm to endure. In this discourse, social disruption must act as signifier for more general (structural and systemic) violence—but then is repressed on exactly the same terms, making it difficult to arrive at solutions for conflict on the ground without renouncing calls for justice and...

... marriages were often tied to episodes of conflict and rivalry, from a longer-term perspective the usefulness of marriage as a means of securing and maintaining peace remained an important element of premodern diplomacy. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 peace marriage diplomacy Henry I...

... How can social psychology contribute to the resolution of seemingly intractable conflicts? A new and promising approach to this conundrum has come from the most recent developments in that field—from what is termed “positioning the- ory.”1 If...

... remarkable about this wisdom is that it is demonstrably false. A large and growing literature on self-­governance finds that “real world” anarchy need not be dire. Nor must it be plagued by end- less conflict.1 On the contrary, many stateless societies display significant “civili- zation.” Some are...

... were in conflict. How is that possible, now that the big words have been lower-cased and scare-quoted? About what can those people be arguing? Rorty has on occasion said that, despite all (“all” being historicism), he’d like us to feel that we can fight...