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• Textchildrenviolence...1 more

  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.
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  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.
• Textpsychoanalysisviolence

  "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.
• Textgendersexuality...1 more

  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.
• TextHIV/AIDSsex work...1 more

  "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.
• Textpublic healthviolence

  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.
• Textdrug usesex work...1 more

  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.
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  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.