By Nancy Loucks,Sally Smith Holt,Joanna R. Adler

ISBN-10: 1138151432

ISBN-13: 9781138151437

ISBN-10: 1904750427

ISBN-13: 9781904750420

Infanticide, serial killings, conflict, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide; all contain taking of lifestyles. placed most easily, all contain killing a number of folks. but cultural context impacts seriously how one perceives all of those, and certainly, a few readers of this paragraph could have already got proposal: 'But absolutely that doesn't belong with these others, that isn't quite killing.'

Why We Kill examines violence in lots of of its manifestations, exploring how tradition performs a task in people's figuring out of violent action.

From the 1st bankruptcy, which attempts to appreciate a number of different types of family murder together with infanticide, filicide, spousal murder and honour killings, to the ultimate chapter's bone-chilling account of the bloodbath at Murambi in Rwanda, this interesting publication makes compelling reading.

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