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The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence

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Research on violence is dominated by two major options: the etiological approach, or search for causes, which attributes violence to particular (overt or latent) individual failings and conflicts; and the analysis of the system of violence as a part of the social system. This latter approach investigates specific forms of the embedding of violence and institutions that regulate conflicts. Increasingly, comparative social research by social anthropologists and ethnologists is uniting behind the latter standpoint (cf. Abbink, 1994a, 1994b; Bollig, 1991; Elwert, Feuchtwang, & Neubert, 1999; Halbmayer, 2000; Orywal, 1996; Schlee, 2000; Schmidt & Schroeder, 2001).

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Elwert, G. (2003). The Socio-Anthropological Interpretation of Violence. In: Heitmeyer, W., Hagan, J. (eds) International Handbook of Violence Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3_14

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