Jom this sondpoint emboclimen Porte! Ce ea eae Cores aeaee ua ey setae el oa ees (eee Cae re ‘culture and self =P 9 Hra0sCambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology 2 Embodiment and experience Editors ¢ existential ground of culture and self Ronald Frankenberg, Centre for Medical Social ‘Anthropology, University Th a of of Rete Byron Good, Department of Social Medicine, Harcard Mac Schl ‘Alan Harwood, Departmen of dntrpoony, Unies of Mache, Baited by Boston = Lewis, Deparment of Soil Anthropology, Gilbert Lewis, Deparment of Sait Anhroplgy, Uncsicof ‘Thomas J. Csordas Kind Lod Dima of Apt, Unis Clg au ese Ree Unversity London Margaret Lock, Deparment of Hanoi: nd Social Sti in Medici McC Univerny Nay Seheper-Hughes, Department of Anthropol University of California, Barely Medical anthropology isthe fastest growing specialist area within anthropology, both in North America and in Europe. Beginning as an applied feld serving pute health specialists, medical anthropology now provides a significant forum fer many ‘of the most urgent debates in anthropology and the humanities Medical anthropology inuludes the study of medical institutions and health care in 4 variety of rich and poor societies, the investigation ofthe cultural construction ot illness, and the analysis of ideas about the body, birth, maturation, agcing, and death, ‘This new series includes theoretically innovative monographs, state-of-the art fallectons of esays on current iss, and short books introducing the main themes in the subdisciplin, 1 Lynn M. Morgan, Community participation in health: the politics of primary care in Costa Rica BIBLIOTECe Beas CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSCambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology 2 Batiors Ronald Frankenberg, Centre for Medical Social Anchnopology, Univesity of Keele Byron Good, Department of Socal Medicine, Harvard Medical Schoo! ‘Alan Harwood, Department of Anthropology, University of Masiachaats, Boston Gilbert Lewis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge Roland Littlewood, Departmen of Anthropology, University Coll ty College Margaret Lock, Department of Humanities and Socal Studies in Medicine, McGill University Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkley ‘Medical anthropology isthe fastest growing specialist area within anthropology, both in North America and in Europe. Beginning as an applied field serving pute health specialists, medical anthropology now provides a significant forum fer many ofthe most urgent debates in anthropology and the humanities, ‘Medical anthropology includes the rudy of meal inetutions end health cae in 4 {ate of rich and poor societies, the investigation ofthe cultural construction of iliness, andthe analysis of ideas about the body, birth, maturation, ageing, and death, This new series includes theoretically innovative monographs, state-of these {pllestions of esays on current issues, and short books introducing the main theres inthe subdisipine, J Lann M. Morgan, Canonaity participation in health: thepoitis of primary cae Embodiment and experience The existential ground of culture and self a Baited by ‘Thomas J. Csordas Cau Western Reser University : UNIDAD isTMO BIBLIOTECA \eoas: UNIVERSITY PRESS S CAMBRIDGE(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ‘Cambridge, Ne York, Melbouras, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, So Paulo Cambridge University Press ‘The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published inthe Unite States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York wo cambedge org Information on his le: ww cambridg.ong9780521452564 (© Cambridge Univecriy Press 194 ie ‘0 reproduction of ay part may tke place without ‘he writen permission af Cambridge University Pres Firs publishes 1994 Reprinied 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, A catalogue record forth plication l available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data "Embodiment and experince: the existent ground fete and self ‘edited by Thomas J. Crordae. . em. (Cambridge sade in medical anthropology; 2) SBN 0 52145256 (hardback) ISBN 021 458900 (paperback) 1. Boy Humsn-Socia aspects, 2. Body, Human-Symbolie aspects 5. Medica anthropology. Csoedas, Thomas Series Gnzss.E43 194 MG 4'6i-de20 93-45085 CIP ISBN<13 978-0521.452564 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-452562 hardback ISBN-13 975-0.521-45800-0 paperback TSBN-10 0-521-45890-0 paperback. Tranter to digital printing 2005 take oe “helngen, O2[I6[200F oa Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Preface jon and being-in-the-world Introduction: the body as represents THOMAS J. CSORDAS Part I Paradigms and polemics 1 Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social theory ‘TERENCE TURNER 2. Society's body: emotion and the “somatization” of social theory M.L. LYON AND J. M. BARBALET Part II Form, appearance, and movement 3. The political economy of injury and compassion: amputees on the Thai-Cambodia border LINDSAY FRENCH. 4 Nurturing and negligence: working on others’ bodies in Fiji ANNE E, BECKER 5. The silenced body ~ the expressive Leib: on the dialectic of ‘mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing Part III Self, sensibility, and emotion 6 Embodied metaphors: nerves a lived experience SETHA M. LOW page ix a 100 16 13911 Rape trauma: contexts of meaning Cathy Winkler (with Kate Wininger) [Rape trauma is disruptive of one’s life, and isa disruption that might appear ‘as meaningless emotions surfacing without reason. Rapists are the initiators of that trauma by forcefully penetrating victims physically, sexually, ‘emotionally, and mentally. Their methods of torture implant landmines of horror in the bodies of their victims. After the attack(s) victims feel these landmines in terms of trauma — frequently a trauma unnoticeable by most people. This trauma surfaces as a feeling of separation between the mind and the body; this separation is trauma felt viscerally and unexplained ‘mentally. In addition, rape-like comments by friends, family members, and institutional representatives instigate another type of trauma that may also set off those unseen and buried mines. I argue that an activist-survivor~ victim’s ability to interpret the meanings of the contexts' behind these ‘traumas begins to diffuse the rape trauma and bridges the gap previously felt between the mind and the body. Rape trauma syndrome Burgess and Holmstrom (1974) were the first to define the concept “rape ‘yauma syndrome.” They explained the emotional chaos and symptoms from the rape attack that keep resurfacing in the victim. These symptoms demonstrate the evidence of rape trauma. Inthe last twenty years, research- crs have added to this list of trauma symptoms that meet the now approved criteria for the diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (American Psychiatric Association 1987): worry, exhaustion, shame, anger, withdrawal, helplessness, vagina] irritation, guilt, suicidal traits, revenge, fatigue, insomnia, decreased libido, lack of sexual desire, feelings of wortlessness, self-blame, depression, stutering, introversion, sleeping and eating disorders intense exhavstion, addictive traits (eg. lcohol and other