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Remaking a World : Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery - Veena Das

Remaking a World

Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

By: Veena Das (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor), Margaret M. Lock (Editor), Mamphela Ramphele (Editor), Pamela Reynolds (Editor)

Paperback | 4 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.
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"The ethnographic studies in this volume are outstanding, and together offer a brilliant mix of materials for throwing light on the representation of violence and suffering in the public sphere. Das and Kleinman introduce the collection with an elegant and deeply insightful set of theoretical reflections on narrative, voice, and social suffering." - Kenneth M. George, author of Showing Signs of Violence"

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Non-FictionSociology & AnthropologyAnthropologySocial & Cultural Anthropology, EthnographySociety & CultureSocial Issues & ProcessesViolence in SocietySocial GroupsEthnic StudiesArchaeology

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