Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective / ed. by Goran Aijmer and Jon Abbink.

The enigma of senseless violence / Anton Blok -- 'Criminals by instinct': on the 'tragedy' of social structure and the 'violence' of individual creativity / Nigel Rapport -- Ritual, violence and social order : an approach to Spanish bullfighting / Alberto Bouroncle -- Restoring the balance : violence and culture among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Tolerating the intolerable : cattle raiding among the Kuria of Kenya / Suzette Heald -- Rethinking 'violence' in Chinese culture / Barend J. ter Haar -- Butchering fish and executing criminals : public executions and the meanings of violence in late Imperial and modern China / Virgil Kit-yiu Ho -- The 'tradition of violence' in Colombia : material and symbolic aspects / Gerard Martin.