Edwards David B. Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan 9780520303461

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Автор: Edwards David B.
Название: Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan
ISBN: 9780520303461
Издательство: Wiley
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Антропология

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

Политика и политический строй

Терроризм, вооруженная борьба

ISBN-10: 0520303466
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 02.04.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 33 b-w images
Размер: 142 x 220 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Postgraduate, research & scholarly
Подзаголовок: Sacrifice and suicide bombing in afghanistan
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the pathology of the terrorist mind or the brainwashing practices of terrorist organizations. In Caravan of Martyrs, David Edwards argues that we need to understand the rise of suicide bombing in relation to the cultural beliefs and ritual practices associated with sacrifice.

Before the war in Afghanistan began, the sacrificial killing of a sheep demonstrated a tribes desire for peace. After the Soviet invasion of 1979, as thousands of people were killed, sacrifice took on new meanings. The dead were venerated as martyrs, but this informal conferral of status on the casualties of war soon became the foundation for a cult of martyrs exploited by political leaders for their own advantage. This first repurposing of the machinery of sacrifice set in motion a process of mutation that would lead nineteen Arabs who had received their training in Afghanistan to hijack airplanes on September 11 and that would in time transform what began as a cult of martyrs created by a small group of Afghan jihadis into the transnational scattering of suicide bombers that haunts our world today.

Drawing on years of research in the region, Edwards traces the transformation of sacrifice using a wide range of sources, including the early poetry of jihad, illustrated martyr magazines, school primers and legal handbooks, martyr hagiographies, videos produced by suicide bombers, the manual of ritual instructions used by the 9/11 hijackers, and Facebook posts through which contemporary Talifans promote the virtues of self-destruction.

Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan, Edwards David B.