Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Scientific Director at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, Norway. Her research in East-Africa spans 3 decades on the ethnography of poverty, gender and embodiment, cosmology, relations between animals, people and nature, pastoralist development, colonialism, violence and trust formation.Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has researched issues such as state formation, violence, poverty and rural-urban connections in Mozambique since 1998 in addition to having had a long-standing interest in theory development within the discipline of anthropology.

• Chapter 1: Violent Reverberations: An Introduction to Our Trauma Scenarios.- Chapter 2: Trauma, Violence, Memory. Reflections on the bodily, the self and the social.- Chapter 3: Universalizing Trauma Descendant Legacies: A Comparative Study of Jewish-Israeli and Cambodian Genocide Descendant Legacies.- Chapter 4: Social Trauma, National Mourning, and Collective Guilt in Post-Authoritarian Argentina.- Chapter 5: Organising Norwegian psychiatry: security as a colonizing regime.- Chapter 6: Dis-assembling the social: The Politics of Affective Violence in Memorandum Greece.- Chapter 7: Re-Assessing the Silent Treatment: Emotional Expression, Preventive Health and the Care of Others and the Self.- Chapter 8: Multisemic speech genres as vehicles for re-inscribing meaning in post-conflict societies. A Mozambican case.- Chapter 9: Violence, Fear and Impunity in Post-War Guatemala.- Chapter 10: Laughter without borders: embodied memory and pan-humanism in a post-traumatic age.

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