Overview
- Probes truly global contexts of violence, trauma and memory beyond simplifying tropes of 'cultural difference'
- Alerts readers to the generative and inventive nature of trauma beyond the postmodern/posthumanist deconstruction of the term
- Takes down the authority of normative modernist constructions
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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Reviews
“These essays raise the bar for projects on trauma that insist on grounding theory in seriously ethnographic, historical, and contextual case studies. The book engages the best-known writers and research in the arena of trauma and affect studies, and will gather momentum and audience because it so carefully and coherently articulates critiques, complementary case studies, and forward-looking theory.” (Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA)
“Trauma, a doctrine with global reach, depends on thin descriptions to illustrate its universalizing analytical framework. Grounded in culture-specific particularities, this elegant volume dissects this condition, instead offering thick descriptions of silence, narrative, security, fear, difference, and ritual laughter.” (Sverker Finnström, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has researched issues such as state formation, violence, poverty and rural-urban connections in Mozambique since 1998 in addition to having had a long-standing interest in theory development within the discipline of anthropology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violent Reverberations
Book Subtitle: Global Modalities of Trauma
Editors: Vigdis Broch-Due, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39049-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39048-2Published: 11 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81804-7Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39049-9Published: 03 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 279
Topics: Social Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, History of Psychology