Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma

by Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben , Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco

• ISBN13: 9780521780261
• ISBN10: 0521780268
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Collective violence changes the perpetrators, the victims, and the societies in which it occurs. It targets the body, the psyche, and the socio-cultural order. How do people come to terms with these tragic events, and how are cultures affected by massive outbreaks of violence? This book is a groundbreaking 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 the terrible things that people are capable of doing to each other.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
List of contributors	xiii
Interdisciplinary perspectives on violence and trauma	1	(42)
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part I The management of collective trauma	43	(112)
Reflections on the prevalence of the uncanny in social violence	48	(22)
Yolanda Gampel
The assault on basic trust: disappearance, protest, and reburial in Argentina	70	(32)
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Mitigating discontents with children in war: an ongoing psychoanalytic inquiry	102	(29)
Roberta J. Apfel
Bennett Simon
Child psychotherapy as an instrument in cultural research: treating war-traumatized children in the former Yugoslavia	131	(24)
David De Levita
Part II Cultural responses to collective trauma	155	(121)
The traumatized social self: the Parsi predicament in modern Bombay	158	(36)
T. M. Luhrmann
Identities under siege: immigration stress and social mirroring among the children of immigrants	194	(33)
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Modern Greek and Turkish identities and the psychodynamics of Greek-Turkish relations	227	(21)
Vamik D. Volkan
Norman Itzkowitz
The violence of non-recognition: becoming a `conscious' Muslim woman in Turkey	248	(24)
Katherine Pratt Ewing
Epilogue	272	(4)
Robert A. Levine
Index	276