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Remaking a world: violence, social suffering and recovery.(Book Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, September, 2005 by Sen, Atreyee
DAS, VEENA, ARTHUR KLEINMAN, MARGARET LOCK, MAMPHELA RAMPHELE & PAMELA REYNOLDS (eds). Remaking a world: violence, social suffering and recovery. viii, 294 pp., tables, bibliogrs. London, Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 2001. [pounds sterling]33.50 (cloth), [pounds sterling]12.95 (paper)
This book interrogates deep-seated assumptions about social dangers and the remaking of worlds. Six brilliant essays address problems of 'coping', and analyse how communities endure and transcend sinister forms of conflict and subordination. The intensely complex and fascinating ...
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