Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

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227 Index aboriginal communities, 195, 206n4. See also First Nations communities; indigenous communities Abraham, Margaret, 6 academia, 27, 113, 133, 167 academic research, 27, 221 and activism, 39, 213–14 in Morocco, 213–14 in Russia, 171, 174, 182 in Turkey, 77 See also individual universities acid attacks, 2 activism, 13, 74, 170 and academia, 39 in Canada, 191–209 domestic violence activists, 51–70 feminist activists, 169, 186n2, 197 human rights activists, 86, 169 in Morocco, 214 relation to state, 77, 204 in Russia, 165–90 scholars as activists, 9 South Asian activists, 51–70 transnational feminist activism, 168 in Turkey, 71–90 women’s rights activists, 72, 166 Adelman, Madelaine, 8–9, 67, 80, 142 adultery, 142 advocacy, 1, 4, 22, 26, 168–69, 186 asylum advocates, 129, 131, 138 domestic violence advocates, 108, 121, 125 frontline worker advocacy, 12, 13 in Japan, 28 in San Francisco Bay Area, 64, 129–38 scholars as advocates, 9–10, 11, 39, 166 state retaliation against, 192, 204 Afghanistan, 68n4, 81, 201 Africa, 19, 93, 137. See also individual countries agency, 12, 156, 219, 220. See also choice Alcalde, M. Christina, 12, 91–106 alcohol, 83, 111–13, 125, 173, 177, 181, 182 role in violence, 5 Aliağa (Turkey), 72 Alvarez, Donia A., 187n9 American Bar Association, 165 Amnesty International, 78, 80, 165 anthropologists, 3–7, 10, 14, 30, 31, 139, 156 as frontline workers, 45, 213 anthropology, 140, 141, 148, 186n1 cognitive anthropology, 110–11, 124 fieldwork, 1, 29, 30, 31, 32, 45, 124 legal anthropology, 5 medical anthropology, 5 political anthropology, 5 on violence, 4–7, 11, 31, 192–93 See also ethnography appropriation (cultural), 11, 85–86 by activists, 71, 74, 76, 86, 87, 148, 160 as imperialism, 194 Asad, Talal, 196 228   Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence Asia, 19, 44, 51, 93, 143 ethnicity categories on the U.S. census, 68nn5–6 South Asia, 51–65, 68nn3–4, 69n8, 194 See also individual countries asylum, 129–38 autonomy, 22, 69, 77, 86, 145, 172, 215 Babior, Sharman, 10, 11, 12, 29–49 Bangladesh, 53–56, 58, 68n4, 68n6 Bargach, Jamila, 10, 13–14, 211–22 Başkent University, 79 Batchelder, William H., 110 battered women’s movement, 39, 168, 169 batterers, 7, 11, 42, 71, 155, 158, 159 in Brazil, 104n3 interviews about, 95, 142, 150 in Japan, 42 in Peru, 91–106 police response to, 11, 42, 71, 97, 104, 104n3 shelters for battered women, 42, 77–78, 88n3, 101, 103 in Turkey, 11, 71–72, 77–78, 80, 85–86, 88n3 in Vietnam, 13 of women, 6, 13, 42, 104, 186n5, 198, 218 See also child abuse; domestic violence; intimate partner violence; violence against women battery, 99–100, 140, 147, 154, 178, 194 Baviskar, Amita, 194 bearing witness, 10, 135 behavioral science, 9 Beijing, 169, 187n8 Berkeley (U.S.), 54, 56 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (India), 55 Bhutan, 68n4, 69n6 biology, 22, 26, 31 bisexuality, 3 blame self-blame, 40, 111, 113, 116 women blamed for violence, 92, 96, 99, 100–103, 107–8, 123 body, 145, 146 Bolshevik regime (USSR), 187n12 Bolton, Ralph, 31 Bordo, Susan, 145 Bosnia, 169 Brazil, 6, 7, 91, 93, 94–95, 104, 104n3 British Columbia, 195 British Embassy, 165 Brommer, Stephanie J., 11, 12, 51–70 Brown, Judith, 5 Brown, Wendy, 64 burnout, 45–46, 135 California, 11, 51–69, 129 Campbell, Jacquelyn, 5 Canada, 10, 13, 197–207 Canadian Embassy, 188n17 Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women, 197 capitalism, 170–71, 187n9, 204, 219 in Russia, 167, 173, 176, 185 in Vietnam, 142–43 See also liberalism; neoliberalism carework, 23, 26, 34, 67, 82, 144, 151 frontline workers as caregivers, 52–53, 55, 59–61 models of care, 1, 8, 14, 66 See also child care; domestic workers caste systems (South Asian), 54, 55, 64 Center for Women and Families (Russia), 188n23 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.), 73 Cesara, Manda, 30 Charter of Rights (Canada), 206n7 child abuse, 4, 91, 197, 217 child care, 19–20, 23, 26, 84, 201, 203, 207n13 children, 8, 72, 75, 79, 104n1, 132–33, 135 children’s rights, 138 child welfare workers’ focus on, 114, 118–25 custody of, 134–35, 148 in danger, 102, 130, 216 and divorce, 101, 150, 152 fear of losing, 19, 40 as perpetrators of violence, 36 Index  229 in shelters, 34–35, 84, 96, 205...