Full Description
What are the legacies of genocide and mass violence for individuals and the social worlds in which they live, and what are the local processes of recovery? Genocide and Mass Violence aims to examine, from a cross-cultural perspective, the effects of mass trauma on multiple levels of a group or society and the recovery processes and sources of resilience. How do particular individuals recall the trauma? How do ongoing reconciliation processes and collective representations of the trauma impact the group? How does the trauma persist in 'symptoms'? How are the effects of trauma transmitted across generations in memories, rituals, symptoms, and interpersonal processes? What are local healing resources that aid recovery? To address these issues, this book brings into conversation psychological and medical anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and historians. The theoretical implications of the chapters are examined in detail using several analytic frameworks.
Contents
Foreword: what does trauma do? Arthur Kleinman; Introduction: an anthropology of the effects of genocide and mass violence: memory, symptom, and recovery Devon E. Hinton and Alexander L. Hinton; Part I. Private and Public Memory: 1. The Vietnam War traumas Heonik Kwon; 2. Haunted by Aceh: specters of violence in post-Suharto Indonesia Byron J. Good; 3. Remembering and ill health in post-invasion Kuwait: topographies, collaborations, and mediations Conerly Casey; 4. 'Behaves like a rooster and cries like a (four-eyed) canine': the politics and poetics of depression and psychiatry in Iran Orkideh Behrouzan and Michael M. J. Fisher; 5. Embodying the distant past: Holocaust descendant narratives of the lived presence of the genocidal past Carol A. Kidron; 6. Half-disciplined chaos: thoughts on contingency, story, and trauma Vincent Crapanzano; Part II. Symptom and Syndrome: 7. 'The spirits enter me to force me to be a communist': political embodiment, idioms of distress, spirit possession, and thought disorder in Bali Robert Lemelson; 8. 'Everything here is temporary': psychological distress and suffering among Iraqi refugees in Egypt Nadia El-Shaarawi; 9. Key idioms of distress and PTSD among rural Cambodians: the results of a needs-assessment survey Devon E. Hinton, Alexander L. Hinton and Kok-Thay Eng; 10. Attack of the grotesque: suffering, sleep paralysis, and distress during the Sierra Leone war Doug Henry; Part III. Response and Recovery: 11. The chaplain turns to God: negotiating post-traumatic stress disorder in the American military Erin Finley; 12. Acehnese women's tales of traumatic experience, resilience, and recovery Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good; 13. Rwanda's Gacaca trials: toward a new nationalism or business as usual? Christopher C. Taylor; 14. Pasts imperfect: talking about justice with former combatants in Colombia Kimberly Theidon; 15. Atrocity and nonsense: the ethnographic study of dehumanization Alexandra Pillen; 16. Growing up on the frontline: coming to terms with war-related loss in Gonagala, Sri Lanka Kenneth E. Miller and Sulani Perera; 17. The role of traditional rituals for the reintegration and psychosocial well-being of child soldiers in Nepal Brandon Kohrt; Commentary: wrestling with the angels of history: memory, symptom, and intervention Laurence J. Kirmayer.
