This article deals with violences of culture and cultures of
violence. After reviewing the specificity of anthropological views
of violence, we propose a processual reconceptualisation of this,
reflect on the forms and possible consequences of ethnographic
research and representation in this field, and end by outlining the
future of an anthropology of violence that can also be an anthropology
of peace. An epilogue on 11 March serves to relocate this
theoretical sketch in the context of global terrorism.Peer reviewe
