Fraternity and Terror: The Organization of Violence in Everyday Life

This paper was inspired by participant observation in the Coalfields towns of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. It is an attempt to demonstrate the significance of violence in the political practice of coal‐miners. This significance has been overlooked in the recent enthusiasm for studies of ‘do...

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Published inMankind Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 373 - 382
Main Author METCALFE, ANDREW
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.1984
Sydney University Press for the Anthropological Society of New South Wales
Subjects
Battle of Rothbury (1929: Lockout)
Groups
Hunter Valley Coalfields (NSW)
Mining
New South Wales: Social conditions
Political science
Social classes
Trade unions
Violence
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Summary:This paper was inspired by participant observation in the Coalfields towns of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. It is an attempt to demonstrate the significance of violence in the political practice of coal‐miners. This significance has been overlooked in the recent enthusiasm for studies of ‘dominant ideologies’. Beyond this, the paper is an attempt to theorize the role of routine violence in the formation, maintenance and dissolution of social groups. The processes of group formation are an important subject for any theory of political practice.
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Mankind, v.14, no.5, Dec 1984: 373-382
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ISSN:0025-2328
1035-8811
1835-9310
DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1984.tb01263.x