Genocide and mass violence : memory, symptom, and recovery / edited by Devon E. Hinton, Harvard University, Alexander L. Hinton, Rutgers University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Vietnam War traumas / Heonik Kwon -- Haunted by Aceh : specters of violence in post-Suharto Indonesia / Byron J. Good -- Remembering and ill health in post-invasion Kuwait : topographies, collaborations, and mediations / Conerly Casey -- "Behaves like a rooster and cries like a (four-eyed) canine" : the politics and poetics of depression and psychiatry in Iran / Orkideh Behrouzan and Michael M.J. Fisher -- Embodying the distant past : Holocaust descendant narratives of the lived presence of the genocidal past / Carol A. Kidron -- Half-disciplined chaos : thoughts on contingency, story, and trauma / Vincent Crapanzano -- "The spirits enter me to force me to be a communist" : political embodiment, idioms of distress, spirit possession, and thought disorder in Bali / Robert Lemelson -- "Everything here is temporary" : psychological distress and suffering among Iraqi refugees in Egypt / Nadia El-Shaarawi -- Key idioms of distress and PTSD among rural Cambodians : the results of a needs-assessment survey / Devon E. Hinton, Alexander L. Hinton and Kok-Thay Eng -- Attack of the grotesque : suffering, sleep paralysis, and distress during the Sierra Leone war / Doug Henry -- The chaplain turns to God : negotiating post-traumatic stress disorder in the American military / Erin Finley -- Acehnese women's tales of traumatic experience, resilience, and recovery / Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good -- Rwanda's Gacaca trials : toward a new nationalism or business as usual? / Christopher C. Taylor -- Pasts imperfect : talking about justice with former combatants in Colombia / Kimberly Theidon -- Atrocity and non-sense : the ethnographic study of dehumanization / Alexandra Pillen -- Growing up on the front line : coming to terms with war-related loss in Gonagala, Sri Lanka / Kenneth E. Miller and Sulani Perera -- The role of traditional rituals for the reintegration and psychosocial well-being of child soldiers in Nepal / Brandon Kohrt -- Commentary : wrestling with the angels of history: memory, symptom, and intervention / Laurence J. Kirmayer.

Examines, from a cross-cultural perspective, the effects of mass trauma on multiple levels of a group or society and the recovery processes and sources of resilience.