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 '''2. In some life-worlds, homicide is one of the most common causes of death'''
-.1 Within the multiple realities of human experience, the mass media universe of news and entertainment stands out as an especially violence-prone one. The world as we know it is largely an imaginary world. In this imaginary world, homicide is the most common cause of death. Think of the news: school shootings, massacres, the killing of hostages, gruesome family tragedies, murder trials, executions. Think of fiction: the silence of the lambs, serial killers, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, or think of the series Breaking Bad, Dexter, the Netflex series on Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, or CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI NY. Murder is the most common cause of death in our common nightmarish conscience collective. (Why is that so and what functions does that fulfill? And does it reflect the statistical truth?) [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20910859In Murder, She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher's sleepy home town of Cabot Cove has a rate of 1,490 murders per million.]
+.1 Within the multiple realities of human experience, the mass media universe of news and entertainment stands out as an especially violence-prone one. The world as we know it is largely an imaginary world. In this imaginary world, homicide is the most common cause of death. Think of the news: school shootings, massacres, the killing of hostages, gruesome family tragedies, murder trials, executions. Think of fiction: the silence of the lambs, serial killers, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, or think of the series Breaking Bad, Dexter, the Netflex series on Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, or CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI NY. Murder is the most common cause of death in our common nightmarish conscience collective. (Why is that so and what functions does that fulfill? And does it reflect the statistical truth?).
+.2 In the USA: '''homicide is the No. 1 killer of black men between the ages of 15 and 34''' (CDC Atlanta). Accidents ranked second, and suicide third (15 and 24 years), while heart disease ranked third for men 24-34. *[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/24/juan-williams/juan-williams-no-1-cause-death-african-americans-1/ Juan Williams: Murder is No 1 cause of death].
+[https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/19Geronimus.pdf Arline Geronimus (1998): For 15 -19 year old African American males in major metropolitan areas homicide is the leading cause of death].
+For the Rohingya of Myanmar and white farmers in South Africa, things look similarly bleak. Where it is not only the moral quality, but also the quantity and frequency of homicide that is a cause of concern, violence is sometimes (seen as) genocidal.
+'''Homicide in Latin America'''
-.2 In the USA according to the CDC in Atlanta, '''homicide was the No. 1 killer of black men between the ages of 15 and 34''' in 2011. Accidents ranked second, and suicide third (15 and 24 years), while heart disease ranked third for men 24-34. *[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/24/juan-williams/juan-williams-no-1-cause-death-african-americans-1/ Juan Williams: Murder is No 1 cause of death]. Similar: [https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/19Geronimus.pdf Arline Geronimus (1998): For 15 -19 year old African American males in major metropolitan areas homicide is the leading cause of death]. For the Rohingya of Myanmar and white farmers in South Africa, things look similarly bleak. Where it is not only the moral quality, but also the quantity and frequency of homicide that is a cause of concern, violence is sometimes (seen as) genocidal.
 == The Anthropology of Homicide ==