CHAPTER 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. PART I. Introduction and Theoretical Background
4. Introduction: Culture, Trauma, and PTSD 3
5. CHAPTER 1. The Culturally Sensitive Assessment of Trauma: Eleven Analytic Perspectives, a Typology of Errors, and the Multiplex Models of Distress Generation 50
6. PART I I. Historical Perspectives
7. CHAPTER 2. Is PTSD a Transhistorical Phenomenon? 117
8. CHAPTER 3. What Is “PTSD”? The Heterogeneity Thesis 135
9. CHAPTER 4. From Shell Shock to PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Perspective on Responses to Combat Trauma 155
10. PART III. Cross- Cultural Perspectives
11. CHAPTER 5. Trauma in the Lifeworlds of Adolescents: Hard Luck and Trou ble in the Land of Enchantment 179
12. CHAPTER 6. Gendered Trauma and Its Effects: Domestic Vio lence and PTSD in Oaxaca 202
13. CHAPTER 7. Exploring Pathways of Distress and Mental Disorders: The Case of the Highland Quechua Populations in the Peruvian Andes 240
14. CHAPTER 8. Latinas’ and Latinos’ Risk for PTSD After Trauma Exposure: A Review of Sociocultural Explanations 275
15. CHAPTER 9. Karma to Chromosomes: Studying the Biology of PTSD in a World of Culture 307
16. CHAPTER 10. Square Pegs and Round Holes: Understanding Historical Trauma in Two Native American Communities 334
17. CHAPTER 11. Culture, Trauma, and the Social Life of PTSD in Haiti 359
18. CHAPTER 12. Is PTSD a “Good Enough” Concept for Postconfl ict Mental Health Care? Refl ections on Work in Aceh, Indonesia 387
19. List of Contributors 419
20. Index 421