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Remaking a world: violence, social suffering, and recovery/ edited by Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds

Contributor(s): Das, Veena, ed | Kleinman, Arthur, ed | Lock, Margaret, ed | Ramphele, Mamphela, ed | Reynolds, Pamela, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001Description: vii, 294 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780520223295Subject(s): Suffering--Social aspects | Community life | Interpersonal relationsDDC classification: 303.62

Contents:

Marginality, suffering, and community: the politics of collective experience and empowerment in Thailand / Komatra Chuengsatiansup -- Reimaging aboriginality: an indigenous people's response to social suffering / Naomi Adelson -- The bomb's womb? Women and the atom bomb / Maya Todeschini -- Spirit possessions and avenging ghosts: stories of supernatural activity as narratives of terror and mechanisms of coping and remembering / Sasanka Perera -- Boundaries, names, alterities: a case study of a "communal riot" in Dharavi, Bombay / Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji -- Speech and silence: women's testimony in the first five weeks of public hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	303.62 DAS/R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03174

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Marginality, suffering, and community: the politics of collective experience and empowerment in Thailand / Komatra Chuengsatiansup --
Reimaging aboriginality: an indigenous people's response to social suffering / Naomi Adelson --
The bomb's womb? Women and the atom bomb / Maya Todeschini --
Spirit possessions and avenging ghosts: stories of supernatural activity as narratives of terror and mechanisms of coping and remembering / Sasanka Perera --
Boundaries, names, alterities: a case study of a "communal riot" in Dharavi, Bombay / Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji --
Speech and silence: women's testimony in the first five weeks of public hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross.

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