Arthur Kleinman & Margaret M. Lock 
Remaking a World [EPUB ebook] 
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

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.



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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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

Sobre o autor

Veena Das is A. Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Arthur Kleinman is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. Margaret Lock is Professor of Social Studies of Medicine at Mc Gill University. Mamphela Ramphele is Managing Director of the World Bank and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, where Pamela Reynolds chairs the Department of Social Anthropology. In other combinations, these five are also the editors of Social Suffering (California, 1997) and Violence and Subjectivity (California, 2000).