ANTH 425 Power and Change

Fall 2011

Nov. 8: Fear and terror 2

Read Green, Linda (1994) "Fear as a Way of Life." Cultural Anthropology. 9(2): 227-256. AnthroSource.

- how is fear used by states against citizens?

- what does Green say is the responsibility of anthropologists who study situations in which there is or has been violence and terrorism?

- how does fear work?

- what are the roots of this situation? How has fear been a part of Guatemalan indigenous experience for over 500 years?

- why is there so much silence about the causes of fear? What are "public secrets"?

- why is it important to break the silence?

- what is it like to live in fear?

- how is violent experience expressed bodily?

- note that some of the elite believed that the rural indigenous people were different, did not feel in the same way, not fully human

- how does this belief that "the other" is not fully human support the perpetration of violence against them?

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