Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword: What Does Trauma Do?
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction An Anthropology of the Effects of Genocide and Mass Violence
- Part I Private and Public Memory
- 1 The Vietnam War Traumas
- 2 Haunted by Aceh
- 3 Remembering and Ill Health in Postinvasion Kuwait
- 4 “Behaves Like a Rooster and Cries Like a [Four Eyed] Canine”
- 5 Embodying the Distant Past
- 6 Half Disciplined Chaos
- Part II Symptom and Syndrome
- Part III Response and Recovery
- Index
- References
2 - Haunted by Aceh
Specters of Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword: What Does Trauma Do?
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction An Anthropology of the Effects of Genocide and Mass Violence
- Part I Private and Public Memory
- 1 The Vietnam War Traumas
- 2 Haunted by Aceh
- 3 Remembering and Ill Health in Postinvasion Kuwait
- 4 “Behaves Like a Rooster and Cries Like a [Four Eyed] Canine”
- 5 Embodying the Distant Past
- 6 Half Disciplined Chaos
- Part II Symptom and Syndrome
- Part III Response and Recovery
- Index
- References
Summary
to learn to live with ghosts.... To live otherwise, and better.
No, not better, but more justly. But with them....
this being-with specters would also be, not only but also,
a politics of memory, of inheritance, and of generations.
(Derrida, Specters of Marx [1994], pp. xviii–xix)
In November 2005, I returned directly to Washington, D.C., from a short field trip to Aceh, the northernmost province of the island of Sumatra, to participate in a symposium of the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, entitled “Uncanny Minds.” I had intended to present a paper on the sense of the uncanny produced by the paintings of a Javanese artist friend, Entang Wiharso. However, so unsettling were my experiences in Aceh that immediately upon my return, I wrote a brief account of that trip, entitled “Haunted by Aceh,” to present at the symposium. For this volume on mass violence, I begin by reproducing parts of that presentation – something akin to field notes, which provide a vivid sense of the experience of being in Aceh in that eery period, immediately post conflict, when it was far from certain whether the cessation of violence and military repression that followed the signing of the peace accords (August 15, 2005, in Helsinki) would lead to a lasting peace or whether the terrible violence, enacted primarily by members of the Indonesian special forces against the relatively invisible communities in the hills of Aceh, would begin again.
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- Genocide and Mass ViolenceMemory, Symptom, and Recovery, pp. 58 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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