Terror, Violence and the Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective
Neil L. Whitehead
Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Neil L. Whitehead is the author of Violence: Poetics, Performance and Expression; In Darkness and Secrecy; Dark Shamans; Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death; and Beyond the Visible and the Material, among others. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and received his doctorate from Oxford.Cosponsored By:
- Anthropology Department
- Psychology Department
- Sociology Department
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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