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Europe: Ethnicity, Language, and Identity
Violence: Theory and Ethnography explores the meanings and contexts in which violent actions occur. The authors develop further the concept of ‘the triangle of violence’ - the idea that violence is marked by the triangle between performers, victims, and witnesses – and the proposition that violence is also marked by contests regarding its legitimacy as a social act. Adopting an approach which looks at the negotiated and contingent nature of violent behavior, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern stress the powerful unacknowledged associations between ideas of revenge and concepts of justice. These theoretical perspectives are applied to in-depth case studies from Rwanda-Urundi, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland. The authors also draw on extensive field experience in Papua New Guinea, using ethnographic detail to address broader issues of considerable global importance.
Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern2002 Violence: Theory and Ethnography. New York and London: Continuum Publishing for Athlone Press.
Scots influence and traditions show clearly in these kilted and bagpipe playing marchers at the Orange Order parade, Rossnowlagh, south-west County Donegal, 5 July 2003. The Rossnowlagh marches are known for being peaceful. Near the center of this group one man holds up a huge Lambeg drum, which he is playing.
Strathern, Andrews, Pamela J. Stewart, and Neil Whitehead (eds.)2006 Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable. London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press.
Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western Europe explores historical expressions of identity in Scotland, based on fieldwork in the Lowlands of Scotland carried out during 1996-2000, mostly in the County of Ayrshire but including materials from all over Scotland. Particular chapters consider Wales and Northern Ireland (where the authors have also conducted research subsequently as well as in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland) in comparison to Scotland. The book continuously weaves together historical narrative with anthropological reflections and analyses, examining the issue of identities through the perspective of both disciplines. The St. Andrew’s flag or Saltire is a mark of the longstanding sense of national identity in Scotland.
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart2001 Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western Europe. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart are a husband and wife research team who have published many books and articles on their fieldwork. They have been conducting research (fieldwork and archival work) in Europe for over a decade, focusing on work in Scotland, Ireland, and on the European Union. Their work has included aspects of the study of Scots as a minority language and its Ulster-Scots variant within County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, and in Northern Ireland, and also cross-border relations between the Republic and Northern Ireland as well as issues of devolution within the United Kingdom. They have also been working on Scottish Diaspora Studies, relating to Western Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. A further dimension of their work relates to Heritage Studies in general and the contesting contexts in which the idea of heritage is deployed.
More information about their research and publications can be found at http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/
Selected Publications
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (2006) Narratives of Violence and Perils of Peace-Making in North-South Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland. In, Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable, A. Strathern, P.J. Stewart, and N. Whitehead (eds.), pp. 142-170, For, Anthropology, Culture, and Society Series, London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press.
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (2006) Introduction: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology. In, Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable, A. Strathern, P.J. Stewart, and N. Whitehead (eds.), pp. 1-39, For, Anthropology, Culture, and Society Series, London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press.
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart (2005) “The Ulster-Scots”: A Cross-Border and Trans-National Concept and its Ritual Performance. Journal of Ritual Studies 19.2: 1-16.