Asian Affairs, March 2010

Academic it  may be, but this anthropological text with its fascinating degressions into magic, romance, land tenure, dispute resolution, and above all, the eponymous relationship of violence to the sense of belonging to land and community, is not dull.

This is a book to savour and upon which to reflect.

Academic it  may be, but this anthropological text with its fascinating degressions into magic, romance, land tenure, dispute resolution, and above all, the eponymous relationship of violence to the sense of belonging to land and community, is not dull.

This is a book to savour and upon which to reflect.