Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa

Jacky Bouju, Aix-Marseille University and Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University and African Studies Centre Leiden (eds.) Ordinary social violence, - i.e. recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships in Africa, and in the world. Studies of violence in Africa often refer to ethnic wars and explicit conflicts and do not enter the hidden domain of violence that this book reveals through in-depth anthropological studies from di..