Zusatztext "Aciksoz coherently articulates his arguments through the lenses of sociological, cultural, psychoanalytic, and political approaches as he concurrently manages to interrelate seemingly distant concepts, such as sacrifice, gender, and debt." Informationen zum Autor Salih Can Açiksöz i s Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits, Açiksöz examines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability. Zusammenfassung Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war! one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits! Açiksöz examines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class! gender! and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals! commemorations! political demonstrations! and veterans' everyday spaces of care! intimacy! and activism! Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies! political subjectivities! and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology! masculinity! and disability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index ...

Autorentext
Salih Can Açiksöz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Zusammenfassung
Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits, Açiksöz examines how veterans’ experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans’ everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans’ bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.

Inhalt
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface: Entering a Gray Zone
Abbreviations

Introduction
1 • Being-on-the-Mountains
2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State
3 • Of Gazis and Beggars
4 • Communities of Loss
5 • Prosthetic Revenge
6 • Prosthetic Debts

Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities
of Political Violence

Notes
Bibliography
Index