Genocide and mass violence : memory, symptom, and recovery / edited by Devon E. Hinton, Harvard University, Alexander L. Hinton, Rutgers University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinton, Devon E., editor.

Hinton, Alexander Laban, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Case studies.

Genocide.

Violence--Case studies.

Violence.

Social psychology--Case studies.

Social psychology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 434 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Contents:

The Vietnam War traumas / Heonik Kwon

Haunted by Aceh : specters of violence in post-Suharto Indonesia / Byron J. Good

Remembering and ill health in post-invasion Kuwait : topographies, collaborations, and mediations / Conerly Casey

"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

Embodying the distant past : Holocaust descendant narratives of the lived presence of the genocidal past / Carol A. Kidron

Half-disciplined chaos : thoughts on contingency, story, and trauma / Vincent Crapanzano

"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

"Everything here is temporary" : psychological distress and suffering among Iraqi refugees in Egypt / Nadia El-Shaarawi

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

Attack of the grotesque : suffering, sleep paralysis, and distress during the Sierra Leone war / Doug Henry

The chaplain turns to God : negotiating post-traumatic stress disorder in the American military / Erin Finley

Acehnese women's tales of traumatic experience, resilience, and recovery / Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good

Rwanda's Gacaca trials : toward a new nationalism or business as usual? / Christopher C. Taylor

Pasts imperfect : talking about justice with former combatants in Colombia / Kimberly Theidon

Atrocity and non-sense : the ethnographic study of dehumanization / Alexandra Pillen

Growing up on the front line : coming to terms with war-related loss in Gonagala, Sri Lanka / Kenneth E. Miller and Sulani Perera

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107069541

1107069548

9781107694699

1107694698

OCLC:

884570848