Introduction: Toward a deep history of violence and civilization / Roderick Campbell -- Part I. Sacrifice -- Introduction to Part I -- Dramas of the dialectic : sacrifice and power in ancient polities / Edward Swenson -- (Un)dying loyalty : meditations on retainer sacrifice in ancient Egypt and elsewhere / Ellen F. Morris -- Transformations of violence : on humanity and inhumanity in early China / Roderick Campbell -- Part II. Community -- Introduction to Part II -- Histories of violence : notes from the Roman Empire / Ari Z. Bryen -- On torture in societies against the state / Severin Fowles -- Part III. Terror -- Introduction to Part III -- The military normal : feeling at home with counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz -- Violence, terrorism, otherness : reshaping enmity in times of terror / Philippe Bonditti.
