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Remembering violence : anthropological perspectives on intergenerational transmission / edited by Nicolas Argenti and Katharina Schramm.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Intergenerational communication.
- Memory.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume sheds new light on
- Contents:
- Title page-Remembering Violence; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Introduction; Bodies of Memory; Chapter 2-Rape and Remembrance in Guadeloupe; Chapter 3-Uncanny Memmories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine in Southern Chile; Performance; Chapter 4-Memories of Initiation Violence: Remembered Pain and Religious Transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea, Conakry); Chapter 5-Nationalising Personal Trauma, Personalising National Redemption: Performing Testimony at Auschwitz-Birkenau; Landscapes, Memoryscapes and the Materiality of Objects
- Chapter 6-Memories of Slavery: Narrating History in RitualChapter 7-In a Ruined Country: Place and the Memory of War Destruction in Argonne (France); Generations: Chasms and Bridges; Chapter 8-Silent Legacies of Trauma: A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and Israeli Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work; Chapter 9-The Transmission of Traumatic Loss: A Case Study in Taiwan; Chapter 10-Afterword: Violence and the Generation of Memory; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-477-1
- 0-85745-628-8
- 1-282-62818-6
- 9786612628184
- 1-84545-970-9
- OCLC:
- 670411014
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