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'Better Occasional Murders than Frequent Adulteries': Discourses on Banditry, Violence, and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean (2006)
Book Chapter
Sant Cassia, P. (2006). 'Better Occasional Murders than Frequent Adulteries': Discourses on Banditry, Violence, and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean. In F. Coronil, & J. Skurski (Eds.), States of violence (219-268). University of Michigan Press

This book chapter explores both the conditions that led to widespread violence and banditry in the Mediterranean up till the early 19th century, and the mechanisms operative to extract consent and complicity at the grassroots. It then examines how in... Read More about 'Better Occasional Murders than Frequent Adulteries': Discourses on Banditry, Violence, and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean.

Recognition and Emotion. Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus (2006)
Book Chapter
Sant Cassia, P. (2006). Recognition and Emotion. Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus. In Y. Papadakis, N. Peristianis, & G. Welz (Eds.), Divided Cyprus : modernity, history and an island in conflict (194-213). Indiana University Press

In this chapter I discuss the attempts by some widows of missing persons in Cyprus to recover the remains of their loved ones and give them a proper burial. My aims are threefold. First, I show that although the issue of missing persons in Cyprus is... Read More about Recognition and Emotion. Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus.

When Intuitive Knowledge Fails: Emotion, Art and Resolution (2005)
Book Chapter
Sant Cassia, P. (2005). When Intuitive Knowledge Fails: Emotion, Art and Resolution. In K. Milton, & M. Svasek (Eds.), Mixed emotions : anthropological studies of feeling (109-125). Berg

Starting with Aristotle's suggestion that thought plays a central role in emotion, this chapter explores how in the absence of the bodies of missing persons, mourners find it difficult to express their emotions by 'conventional' means, either through... Read More about When Intuitive Knowledge Fails: Emotion, Art and Resolution.