A collection of essays that consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. It ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman Violence-Prone Area or International Transition? Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence Susan L. Woodward Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror Allen Feldman Circumcision, Body, Masculinity: The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence Deepak Mehta Teach Me How to Be a Man: An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity Mamphela Ramphele On Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory, Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict Jonathan Spencer The Ground of All Making: State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists Pamela Reynolds Violence, Suffering, Amman: The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone Patricia Lawrence The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity Veena Das The Violences of Everyday Life: The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence Arthur Kleinman Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi Emma Tarlo The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal Margaret Lock Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories Kay B. Warren Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria Murray Last Mood, Moment, and Mind E. Valentine Daniel LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX