Remembering Violence : : Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission / / ed. by Nicolas Argenti, Katharina Schramm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Argenti, Nicolas,; Berliner, David,; Feldman, Jackie,; Feuchtwang, Stephan,; Filippucci, Paola,; Kidron, Carol A.,; Klungel, Janine,; Kristensen, Dorthe Brogaard,; Pichler, Adelheid,; Schramm, Katharina,; Shaw, Rosalind,
• HerausgeberIn: Argenti, Nicolas,; Schramm, Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission -- Bodies of Memory -- Chapter 2 Rape and Remembrance in Guadeloupe -- Chapter 3 Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine in Southern Chile -- Performance -- Chapter 4 Memories of Initiation Violence: Remembered Pain and Religious Transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea, Conakry) -- Chapter 5 Nationalising Personal Trauma, Personalising National Redemption: Performing Testimony at Auschwitz–Birkenau -- Landscapes, Memoryscapes and the Materiality of Objects -- Chapter 6 Memories of Slavery: Narrating History in Ritual -- Chapter 7 In a Ruined Country: Place and the Memory of War Destruction in Argonne (France) -- Generations: Chasms and Bridges -- Chapter 8 Silent Legacies of Trauma: A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and Israeli Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work -- Chapter 9 The Transmission of Traumatic Loss: A Case Study in Taiwan -- Chapter 10 Afterword: Violence and the Generation of Memory -- Notes on Contributors -- Index