ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE RIVER STICKS: A SHORT GUIDE TO  UNDERSTANDING OF "HUMAN BOMB" IN CONTEMPORARY   INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAMIC SUICIDE TERRORISM Cover Image

ANTROPOLOGIJA NA OBALI REKE STIKS: Kratak vodič za razumevanje "ljudske bombe" u savremenim interpretacijama islamskog samoubilačkog terorizma
ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE RIVER STICKS: A SHORT GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING OF "HUMAN BOMB" IN CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAMIC SUICIDE TERRORISM

Author(s): Marko Pišev
Subject(s): Anthropology, Islam studies, Security and defense, Military policy, Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: suicide terrorism; religion; politics; Muslims; the West;

Summary/Abstract: Islamic suicide terrorism has recently often been studied by social and humanistic disciplines such as politology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology and military theory. Western authors mostly deal with this phenomenon by "understanding" and condemning it at the same time, and trying to find certain regularities in its manifestation, in order to help prevent terrorist actions in the future. In dealing with suicidal terrorism, Western anthropology arguably becomes most concretely involved in the discourse of political instrumentalization of science. The author of this text argues that anthropology – together with related social sciences – loses its critical dimension in the process and becomes biased, and consequently loses its objectiveness. This is why in this paper he attempts to provide a model for somewhat different approach to understanding this phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 11/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 189-213
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian