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Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention in Africa, affecting over one million women across the global south. Western-funded hospitals have sprung up, offering surgical sutures that ostensibly allow women who suffer from obstetric fistula to return to their communities in full health. Journalists, NGO staff, celebrities, and some physicians have crafted a stock narrative around this injury, depicting afflicted women as victims of a backward culture who have their fortunes dramatically reversed by Western aid. With Beyond Surgery, medical anthropologist Anita Hannig unsettles this picture for the first time and reveals the complicated truth behind the idea of biomedical intervention as quick-fix salvation. Through her in-depth ethnography of two repair and rehabilitation centers operating in Ethiopia, Hannig takes the reader deep into a world inside hospital walls, where women recount stories of loss and belonging, shame and delight. As she chronicles the lived experiences of fistula patients in clinical treatment, Hannig explores the danger of labeling "culture" the culprit, showing how this common argument ignores the larger problem of insufficient medical access in rural Africa. Beyond Surgery portrays the complex social outcomes of surgery in an effort to deepen our understanding of medical missions in Africa, expose cultural biases, and clear the path toward more effective ways of delivering care to those who need it most.

Medical anthropology --- Fistula, Vesico-vaginal --- Treatment --- Social aspects --- Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. --- Christianity. --- Ethiopia. --- Western aid. --- biomedicine. --- culture. --- ethnography. --- hospital. --- maternal health. --- obstetric fistula. --- structural violence. --- surgery. --- Fistula, Vesicovaginal

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Tracing the lives of four women as they came of age in revolutionary-era Nicaragua and later immigrated to Italy, this book examines social agency and its limits in the context of present-day Latin America and Europe.

Nicaraguans --- Women immigrants --- Women --- Social conditions. --- Nicaragua --- Italy --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Four Women’s Lives. --- Immigration. --- Italy. --- Nicaragua. --- Oral History. --- Revolution. --- Social Mobility. --- Structural Violence. --- Structured Agency.

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Passive resistance --- Gandhi, --- Psychoanalytic Interpretation. --- Violence. --- Assaultive Behavior --- Atrocities --- Behavior, Assaultive --- Biological Warfare --- Riots --- Warfare --- Crime Victims --- Interpretation, Psychoanalytic --- Psychoanalytical Interpretation --- Interpretation, Psychoanalytical --- Interpretations, Psychoanalytic --- Interpretations, Psychoanalytical --- Psychoanalytic Interpretations --- Psychoanalytical Interpretations --- Structural Violence --- Violence, Structural --- Psychoanalytic Interpretation --- Violence --- Interpersonal Violence --- Violent Crime --- Crime, Violent --- Interpersonal Violences --- Violence, Interpersonal --- Violences, Interpersonal --- Violent Crimes --- Gandhi, - Mahatma, - 1869-1948

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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering-the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence-profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations- grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.

Women --- Ladino (Latin American people) --- Violence --- Social conditions. --- Violence against --- anthropology. --- asylum. --- catholicism. --- criminology. --- exploitation. --- female survivors. --- female victims. --- feminicide. --- gender inequality. --- gender norms. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- guatemala. --- immigration. --- inequality. --- institutional violence. --- ladina. --- latin america. --- latina. --- microaggressions. --- migration. --- political violence. --- poverty. --- refugee. --- religion. --- sexuality. --- structural violence. --- underdeveloped countries. --- violence against women. --- violence. --- vulnerability. --- women. --- womens studies.

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"In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life"--.

Adolescent psychotherapy --- Adolescent psychiatry --- Psychiatric hospital care --- Residential treatment --- adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care. --- cultural phenomenology of existence. --- familial turmoil. --- gripping. --- groundbreaking. --- mental health care system. --- misogyny. --- new mexico. --- personal anguish and structural violence. --- poverty. --- psychiatric diagnosis. --- psychic distress. --- stigma. --- treatment under regime of managed care.