Building Bridges brings together ten papers nine of which were presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society (SAS) in Savannah, Georgia, in February of 2010. The theme of the meeting, Ports, Hubs and Bridges: Key Links in Anthropological Theory and Practice, is a reference to the important interconnections found not only within the discipline among the various types of anthropologies, but also between the anthropological professional and those whom anthropologists teach, rely on for information, or otherwise focus on in their research. The papers in this...
Building Bridges brings together ten papers nine of which were presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society (SAS) in Savann...
Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about human violence. Therefore, in addition to describing the life histories of a sample of individual serial and spree murderers, the book includes...
Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discre...
