Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and RecoveryVeena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret M. Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, Pamela Reynolds 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2001. 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, |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... possession provides a methodological strategy for unders anding the process of coping with terror , in which the cultural , political , and experiential are deeply connected . For Perera , coping with trauma hap- pens in both the outer ...
... possession provides a methodological strategy for unders anding the process of coping with terror , in which the cultural , political , and experiential are deeply connected . For Perera , coping with trauma hap- pens in both the outer ...
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... possession , dispossession , or in trance ) of a new kind of subjectivity . To investigate the continuity between peacetime crimes and acts of spectacular violence , for which Scheper - Hughes makes an important and convincing case , we ...
... possession , dispossession , or in trance ) of a new kind of subjectivity . To investigate the continuity between peacetime crimes and acts of spectacular violence , for which Scheper - Hughes makes an important and convincing case , we ...
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... possession " with " dispossession . " Possession places emphasis on the being of the pos- sessing agency or the person - who - is - possessed's experience of being taken over , becoming a medium for that god , ghost , demon , or ...
... possession " with " dispossession . " Possession places emphasis on the being of the pos- sessing agency or the person - who - is - possessed's experience of being taken over , becoming a medium for that god , ghost , demon , or ...
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... possessed here by a jingoist nationalist dis- course of boundaries that was heard in the context of a local violence that she had little means to comprehend . These fragments of floating stories now shape her memory and make her almost ...
... possessed here by a jingoist nationalist dis- course of boundaries that was heard in the context of a local violence that she had little means to comprehend . These fragments of floating stories now shape her memory and make her almost ...
Contents
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An Indigenous Peoples Response to Social Suffering | 76 |
Women and the Atom Bomb | 102 |
Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering | 157 |
A Case Study of a Communal Riot in Dharavi Bombay | 201 |
Womens Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 250 |
Contributors | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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