This is a landmark collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated within the last two decades. It tackles topics from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson.

This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Essays 1. The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness Ana Douglass 2. Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation Joseba Zulaika 3. Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodor Roosevelt William A. Douglass 4. An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial Cindy Patton 5. Poetry, Witness, Feminism Harret Davidson 6. Poetic Witness/ Writing the Real Thomas A. Vogler 7. The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation - Kyo Maclear 8. The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness Tyrus Miller 9. Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz 'after' Lyotard Karyn Ball 10. Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness James Young Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index