Jo Ellen: 23 books

Book cover of Strange Enemies

Strange Enemies

Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia

by Aparecida Vilaça, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010

In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the...
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The Making of a Human Bomb

An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

by Nasser Abufarha, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009

In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have...
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Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

by Leigh A. Payne, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008

An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military...
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Genocide

Truth, Memory, and Representation

by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the...
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Living with Bad Surroundings

War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

by Sverker Finnström, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008

Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced...
Book cover of The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008

Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune...
Book cover of Focus Group Research
by Martha Ann Carey, Jo-Ellen Asbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

This volume provides a thorough introduction to creating and conducting focus group research projects. Carey and Asbury provide background on the history of focus groups then document the best practices in conducting a study using them. They also provide valuable advice on how to conduct a fair and...
Book cover of Profession 2013
by Michael Brub, Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014

This issue of Profession contains Michael Bérubé's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Avenues of Access, which was held at the 2013 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants: Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers, Maria Maisto, and Robert Samuels. The issue also features a section on a...
Book cover of Let Nobody Turn Us Around

Let Nobody Turn Us Around

An African American Anthology

by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Richard Allen, Molefi Kete Asante
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
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