Remaking a world : violence, social suffering, and recovery

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Remaking a world : violence, social suffering, and recovery

edited by Veena Das ... [et al.]

University of California Press, c2001

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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"Sponsored by the Culture, Health, and Human Development Program of the Social Science Research Council"--Additional t.p.

Includes bibliographies and index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780520223295

内容説明

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first voluem, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. The third explores the ways communities "cope" with - endure, work through, break apart under, transcend - traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addresing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethngraphies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the worl.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman Marginality, Suffering, and Community: The Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand Komatra Chuengsatiansup Reimagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous People's Response to Social Suffering Naomi Adelson The Bomb's Womb? Women and the A-Bomb Maya Todeschini Spirit Possessions and Avenging Ghosts: Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering Sasanka Perera Boundaries, Names, Alterities: A Case Study of a "Communal Riot" in Dharavi, Bombay Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji Speech and Silence: Women's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Fiona C. Ross Contributors: Naomi Adelson Roma Chatterji Komatra Chuengsatiansup Veena Das Arthur Kleinman Deepak Mehta Sasanka Perera Fiona C. Ross Maya Todeschini Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520223301

内容説明

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with--endure, work through, break apart under, transcend--traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman Marginality, Suffering, and Community: The Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand Komatra Chuengsatiansup Reimagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous People's Response to Social Suffering Naomi Adelson The Bomb's Womb? Women and the A-Bomb Maya Todeschini Spirit Possessions and Avenging Ghosts: Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering Sasanka Perera Boundaries, Names, Alterities: A Case Study of a "Communal Riot" in Dharavi, Bombay Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji Speech and Silence: Women's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Fiona C. Ross Contributors: Naomi Adelson Roma Chatterji Komatra Chuengsatiansup Veena Das Arthur Kleinman Deepak Mehta Sasanka Perera Fiona C. Ross Maya Todeschini Index

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