Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and they may leave behind a smolder

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

This volume is a resource for bioarchaeologists interested in using a structural violence framework to better understand and contextualize the lived experiences

Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.

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