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 the role of memory in constructing popular histories – or historiographies – of violence in the absence of, or in contradistinction to, authoritative written histories. It brings new ethnographic data to light and presents a truly cross-cultural range of case studies that will greatly enhance the discussion of memory and violence across disciplines.
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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Remembering Violence
Nicolas Argenti and Katharina Schramm
Bodies of Memory
Chapter 2. Rape and Remembrance in Guadeloupe
Janine Klungel
Chapter 3. Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine in Southern Chile
Dorthe Kristensen
Performance
Chapter 4. Memories of Initiation Violence: Remembered Pain and Religious Transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea, Conakry)
David Berliner
Chapter 5. Nationalizing Personal Trauma, Personalizing National Redemption: Performing Testimony at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jackie Feldman
Landscapes, Memoryscapes and the Materiality of Objects
Chapter 6. Memories of Slavery: Narrating History in Ritual
Adelheid Pichler
Chapter 7. In a Ruined Country: Place and the Memory of War Destruction in Argonne (France)
Paola Filippucci
Generations: Chasms and Bridges
Chapter 8. Silent Legacies of Trauma: A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and Israeli Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work
Carol Kidron
Chapter 9. The Transmission of Traumatic Loss: A Case Study in Taiwan
Stephan Feuchtwang
Chapter 10. Afterword
Rosalind Shaw
Sobre o autor
Katharina Schramm is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. She has previously worked on the commemoration of the slave trade and cultural politics in Ghana. Her published works include African Homecoming: Panafricanism and the Politics of Heritage (2010) and Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/creating Categories of Difference and Belonging (2012).
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