Remembering Violence

Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-627-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Argenti, Nicolas

Schramm, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Schramm, Katharina
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).

Argenti, Nicolas
Nicolas Argenti is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at Brunel University. He has conducted research in North West Cameroon and Southern Sri Lanka on youth, political violence, and embodied memory. His monograph, The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, was published in 2007.

Nicolas Argenti is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at Brunel University. He has conducted research in North West Cameroon and Southern Sri Lanka on youth, political violence, and embodied memory. His monograph, The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, was published in 2007.