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Mediations of Violence in Africa
Fashioning new futures from contested pasts
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Edited by:
Lidwien Kapteijns
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2010
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About this book
This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.
Author / Editor information
Lidwien Kapteijns (Ph.D., University of Amsterdam) is Professor of History at Wellesley College. Her published work focuses on Sudanese and Somali history and includes Women's Voices in a Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature (1999).
Annemiek Richters, physician and medical anthropologist, is Professor of Culture, Health and Illness at Leiden University Medical Center and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, The Netherlands. Her publications focus on gender, violence and trauma, and on intercultural health care.
Annemiek Richters, physician and medical anthropologist, is Professor of Culture, Health and Illness at Leiden University Medical Center and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, The Netherlands. Her publications focus on gender, violence and trauma, and on intercultural health care.
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eBook published on:
June 1, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9789004185418
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Main content:
266
eBook ISBN:
9789004185418
Keywords for this book
political violence; suffering; healing; memory; identity; genres of speech; 5
Audience(s) for this book
General readers, students, scholars, and practicioners interested in understanding the violence of war in Africa ( Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, and South Africa), as well as cultural and medical anthropologists, historians, and those specializing in literary and cultural studies.
