Cultures under siege
Subtitle: collective violence and trauma
By: edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco.
Contributors: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.; Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., 1956-
Series: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Violence -- Cross-cultural studies; Collective behavior -- Cross-cultural studies; Violence -- Psychological aspects; Ethnopsychology; Political violence; Genocide
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "This book is a collection of essays by anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts, drawing on field research in many different parts of the world. Profiting from an interdisciplinary dialogue, the authors provide provocative, at times deeply troubling, insights into the darker side of humanity, and they also propose new ways of understanding human cruelty and suffering."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Interdisciplinary perspectives on violence and trauma; title: Reflections on the prevalence of the uncanny in social violence; title: The assault on basic trust : disappearance, protest, and reburial in Argentina; title: Mitigating discontents with children in war : an ongoing psychoanalytic inquiry; title: Child psychotherapy as an instrument in cultural research : treating war-traumatized children in the former Yugoslavia; title: The traumatized social self : the Parsi predicament in modern Bombay; title: Identities under siege : immigration stress and social mirroring among the children of immigrants; title: Modern Greek and Turkish identities and the psychodynamics of Greek-Turkish relations; title: The violence of non-recognition : becoming a 'conscious' Muslim woman in Turkey.