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Informationen zum Autor Devon E. Hinton, MD, PhD, is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His work has focused on culturally specific presentations of anxiety disorders, particularly trauma-related disorder, and culturally sensitive treatment of those disorders. He is the first author of more than 100 articles and chapters. He is the co-editor of four volumes, two with Byron Good: Culture and Panic Disorder and Culture and PTSD. He was a member of the DSM-5 cultural study group, as well as an advisor to the anxiety, OC, posttraumatic, and dissociative disorders work group of DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association). He is the director of a trauma refugee clinic for Southeast Asian refugees in Lowell, MA. Alexander L. Hinton, PhD, is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and nine edited or co-edited collections. In recognition of his work on genocide, the American Anthropological Association selected him as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. He is also the immediate past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011–13) and was a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2011–13). He has been invited around the globe to lecture on genocide and mass violence. Klappentext Genocide and Mass Violence brings together a unique mix of anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and historians to examine the effects of mass trauma. Zusammenfassung What are the effects of mass trauma and genocide! and how does recovery occur? How do responses and recovery processes vary across cultural groups and historical periods? This book examines the effects of genocide and mass violence by scrutinizing the interconnections of personal and social memory! symptoms! and recovery processes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: what does trauma do? Arthur Kleinman; Introduction: an anthropology of the effects of genocide and mass violence: memory, symptom, and recovery Devon E. Hinton and Alexander L. Hinton; Part I. Private and Public Memory: 1. The Vietnam War traumas Heonik Kwon; 2. Haunted by Aceh: specters of violence in post-Suharto Indonesia Byron J. Good; 3. Remembering and ill health in post-invasion Kuwait: topographies, collaborations, and mediations Conerly Casey; 4. 'Behaves like a rooster and cries like a (four-eyed) canine': the politics and poetics of depression and psychiatry in Iran Orkideh Behrouzan and Michael M. J. Fisher; 5. Embodying the distant past: Holocaust descendant narratives of the lived presence of the genocidal past Carol A. Kidron; 6. Half-disciplined chaos: thoughts on contingency, story, and trauma Vincent Crapanzano; Part II. Symptom and Syndrome: 7. 'The spirits enter me to force me to be a communist': political embodiment, idioms of distress, spirit possession, and thought disorder in Bali Robert Lemelson; 8. 'Everything here is temporary': psychological distress and suffering among Iraqi refugees in Egypt Nadia El-Shaarawi; 9. Key idioms of distress and PTSD among rural Cambodians: the results of a needs-assessment survey Devon E. Hinton, Alexander L. Hinton and Kok-Thay Eng; 10. Attack of the grotesque: suffering, sleep paralysis, and distress during the Sierra Leone war Doug Henry; Part III. Response and Recovery: 11. The chaplain turns to God: negotiating post-traumatic stress disorder in the American military Erin Finley; 12. Acehnese women's tales of traumatic experience, resilience, and recovery Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good; 13. Rwanda's Gacaca trials: toward a new nationalism or business as usual? Christopher C. Taylor; 14. Pasts imperfect: talking...
