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Suffering child: An embodiment of war and its aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua

Considers how the ripple effects or war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status.

Tags: children, violence, war

Embodiment of terror: Gendered violence in peacetime and wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discusses parallels between the patterns of everyday domination and aggression during times of peace and war.

Tags: gender, violence, war

"The divine impatience": Ritual, narrative, and symbolization in the practice of martyrdom in Palestine

Elaborates the ritual, narrative, and symbolic dimensions of a practice that exists within a Palestinian discourse of sacrifice and of national liberation.

Tags: psychoanalysis, violence

Machos and sluts: Gender, sexuality, and violence among a cohort of Puerto Rican adolescents

Describes the beliefs and rationale for gender-based violence among a cohort of low-income, predominantly second-generation, mainland Puerto Rican adolescents.

Tags: gender, sexuality, violence

"She drank his money": Survival sex and the problem of violence in taverns in Gauteng province, South Africa

Examines the practice of "survival sex" in the taverns of Soweto and Hammanskraal area, South Africa.

Tags: HIV/AIDS, sex work, violence

Syndemics and public health: Reconceptualizing disease in bio-social context

The term syndemic has been introduced recently by medical anthropologists to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.

Tags: public health, violence

Street smarts and urban myths: Women, sex work, and the role of storytelling in risk reduction and rationalization

The patterns of storytelling among a sample of drug-using women from New York City who engage in street-based sex work.

Tags: drug use, sex work, violence

Violence and the body; Somatic expressions of trauma and vulnerability during war

The contested nature of the body and bodily illness during times of spectacular political violence.

Tags: violence, war

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