Death, Trauma and Ritual: Mozambican Refugees in Malawi

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Title:	Death, Trauma and Ritual: Mozambican Refugees in Malawi
Author:	Englund, Harri
Year:	1998
Periodical:	Social Science and Medicine
Volume:	46
Issue:	9
Period:	May
Pages:	1165-1174
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Malawi Mozambique
Subjects:	refugees violence
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(97)10044-2
Abstract:	For many non-governmental organizations, the treatment of war trauma among refugees has become a key issue in humanitarian assistance. There is, however, as yet little independent evaluation of the notions and therapeutic practices which inform humanitarian interventions in refugees' mental health. By drawing on intensive anthropological fieldwork, the paper problematizes two central issues in these interventions: the role of past experiences in refugees' present well-being, on the one hand, and the need to verbalize trauma in a therapy, on the other.