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Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas such as the Shoah and the Maafa to reimagine how the past is remembered and how the future is anticipated. The new idea of perforMemory arises within a lively blend of interdisciplinary theory, interviews, performance analysis, and personal storytelling. Scholar and artist Layla Zami traces unexpected pathways, inviting the reader to move gracefully across disciplines, geographies, and histories. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.

Dance; Memory; Diaspora; Postcolonial; Feminism; Historical Trauma; Postcolonialism; Memory Culture; Body; --- Body. --- Diaspora. --- Feminism. --- Historical Trauma. --- Memory Culture. --- Memory. --- Postcolonial. --- Postcolonialism.

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Since the 1970's, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show, than is generally recognized. The essays in Culture and PTSD trace how trauma and its effects vary across historical and cultural contexts. Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to other cultural contexts and details local responses to trauma and the extent they vary from PTSD as defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Investigating responses in Peru, Indonesia, Haiti, and Native American communities as well as among combat veterans, domestic abuse victims, and adolescents, contributors attempt to address whether PTSD symptoms are present and, if so, whether they are a salient part of local responses to trauma. Moreover, the authors explore other important aspects of the local presentation and experience of trauma-related disorder, whether the Western concept of PTSD is known to lay members of society, and how the introduction of PTSD shapes local understandings and the course of trauma-related disorders. By attempting to determine whether treatments developed for those suffering PTSD in American and European contexts are effective in global settings of violence or disaster, Culture and PTSD questions the efficacy of international responses that focus on trauma. Contributors: Carmela Alcántara, Tom Ball, James K. Boehnlein, Naomi Breslau, Whitney Duncan, Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Jesse H. Grayman, Bridget M. Haas, Devon E. Hinton, Erica James, Janis H. Jenkins, Hanna Kienzler, Brandon Kohrt, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Richard J. McNally, Theresa D. O'Nell, Duncan Pedersen, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Carol M. Worthman, Allan Young.

Post-traumatic stress disorder. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Cross-cultural counseling. --- Transcultural medical care. --- Historical Trauma. --- Psychological Trauma. --- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

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The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer.

Medical anthropology. --- Women's health services. --- Women's health services --- Cervix uteri --- Social medicine --- Medical anthropology --- Cancer --- Social aspects --- Romania. --- cancer, cervical cancer, Romania, public health, women's health, health care, cancer prevention, post-communist medicine, patriarchal, health care providers, policy makers, religion, historical trauma, pronatalism, Romanian women, reproductive medicine, neoliberal reforms, neoliberalism, medical care, HPV vaccination, patriarchy, preventive medicine, Communism, Medicine, corruption, tumor, cervix, human papillomavirus, STD, immune system, screening test, cancer treatment, paternalism, social welfare, post-communism, Post-Communist Political Economies.

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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled “Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being” cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotional outcomes of dealing with unexpected findings. Broader issues, such as the ubiquity of ancestral acknowledgement and veneration throughout history and its links with religion are also explored. Papers include scholarly interpretations of case-based material, empirical research, and interpretive literature reviews emanating from a wide range of social science disciplines.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- family history --- psychology --- ancestry --- identity construction --- family tree --- war trauma --- attachment --- identity --- immigration --- forgetting --- emotional geography --- context --- environments --- homelands --- heritage --- genealogical motivation --- family history and identity --- family history and altruism --- family history and curiosity --- secular rituals --- post-religious --- sacred stories --- pilgrimage --- family ritual --- ceremony --- historical consciousness --- family history research --- family historians --- temporal orientation --- case study --- adoption --- late-discovery --- family secrets --- shock and losses --- historical trauma --- traumatic reenactment --- psychoanalysis --- infant attachment --- stress biology --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- genealogy --- depression --- trauma --- prolonged grief disorder --- adverse childhood experiences --- alcoholic --- alcohol use disorder --- bereavement --- biological identity --- family identity --- DNA testing --- thematic analysis --- biogeographic ancestry --- n/a --- archaeology --- bereavement studies --- continuing bonds --- problematic stuff --- ancestors --- personhood

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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled “Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being” cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotional outcomes of dealing with unexpected findings. Broader issues, such as the ubiquity of ancestral acknowledgement and veneration throughout history and its links with religion are also explored. Papers include scholarly interpretations of case-based material, empirical research, and interpretive literature reviews emanating from a wide range of social science disciplines.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- family history --- psychology --- ancestry --- identity construction --- family tree --- war trauma --- attachment --- identity --- immigration --- forgetting --- emotional geography --- context --- environments --- homelands --- heritage --- genealogical motivation --- family history and identity --- family history and altruism --- family history and curiosity --- secular rituals --- post-religious --- sacred stories --- pilgrimage --- family ritual --- ceremony --- historical consciousness --- family history research --- family historians --- temporal orientation --- case study --- adoption --- late-discovery --- family secrets --- shock and losses --- historical trauma --- traumatic reenactment --- psychoanalysis --- infant attachment --- stress biology --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- genealogy --- depression --- trauma --- prolonged grief disorder --- adverse childhood experiences --- alcoholic --- alcohol use disorder --- bereavement --- biological identity --- family identity --- DNA testing --- thematic analysis --- biogeographic ancestry --- archaeology --- bereavement studies --- continuing bonds --- problematic stuff --- ancestors --- personhood