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Violence.: War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique

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Violence.: War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique
Abstract
How is one to make sense of state formation as a predominantly violent process? More concretely, how is one, as an anthropologist, to understand one’s interlocutors’ repeated insistence on life being a sustained period of suffering ( <i>sofrimento</i> )? One point at which to start is with the most recent large-scale period of violence, namely the Mozambican civil war (1976–92). During this phase of violent upheaval, the traditional field was implicated in complex ways and its reality as a domain of the potential was actualized in various manners vis-à-vis state dynamics and war machine dynamics. By describing the civil war as
Book Title
Violent Becomings
Series
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Volume
4
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date
2016
Pages
26-55
ISBN
978-1-78533-236-4
Short Title
Violence.
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02/11/2021, 22:39
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Citation
Bertelsen, B. E. (2016). Violence.: War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique. In Violent Becomings (Vol. 4, pp. 26–55). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8bt1ff.12