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Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism

Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism

Zulaika, Joseba
Douglass, William

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 041591759X
ISBN13: 9780415917599
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 16 1996
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

Terror and Taboo is about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it. According to Zulaika and Douglass, we make terrorism worse by the way we represent it in the media and in everyday conversation. Through their examination of terrorism, they propose to remove the taboos surrounding terrorism. Terror and Taboo is full of examples to ground the authors premise, ranging from specific examples, such as tendency to talk more about where Timothy McVeigh shopped for weapons than about the international traffic in arms by legitimate nations, to more theoretical interpretations that will be familiar to readers of cultural studies books.

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