Also cultural differences between researchers and African communities would skew interpretation of research findings unless a very comprehensive understanding of that particular community or culture was present through the design of the research.
And now my brain runs off to wonder if the local presence of many people who have experienced a similar trauma, in itself builds resilience?
Thanks for this diary Bob, I'm looking forward to the next one too. Ad astra per aspera
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Theory/0703.html
Despite Cathy Caruth's claim in her landmark collection "Trauma: Explorations in Memory" that "trauma itself may provide the very link between cultures," trauma has been infrequently explored from cross-cultural and non-Western perspectives. This panel seeks to examine the relationship between trauma and culture, to explore and possibly critique the Eurocentric perspective of trauma studies, and to investigate the manner in which trauma reinvigorates psychoanalysis with the work of cultural critique. Paper topics might consider the following questions: How does culture theorize trauma? Do differentcultures and histories require different theories? What are the ethical problems involved in using European-originated theories for non-European or postcolonial traumatic histories? What are the ethics of cross-cultural comparisons of trauma?
Paper topics might consider the following questions:
How does culture theorize trauma? Do differentcultures and histories require different theories? What are the ethical problems involved in using European-originated theories for non-European or postcolonial traumatic histories? What are the ethics of cross-cultural comparisons of trauma?
neither I read the book.. so I do not have the foggiest idea about cross-cultural trauma... no frigging clue. But the danger of imposing ethnocentrics vision of traumas or looking for traumas in places where tehere is none always exist....
But no idea....
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
