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Violent Reverberations
. Ed(S): Broch-Due, Vigdis; Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge
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Hardback. Editor(s): Broch-Due, Vigdis; Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 519.
The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma ... Read more
The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Culture, Mind and Society
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319390482
SKU
V9783319390482
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Broch-Due, Vigdis; Bertelsen, Bjorn Enge
Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Scientific Director at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, Norway. Her research in East-Africa spans 3 decades on the ethnography of poverty, gender and embodiment, cosmology, relations between animals, people and nature, pastoralist development, colonialism, violence and trust formation. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor of ... Read more
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