Trauma and the Kanun: Two Responses to Loss in Albania and Kosova

Roland Littlewood
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Roland Littlewood: Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University College London, London WCE 6BT

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2002, vol. 48, issue 2, 86-96

Abstract: Social anthropology has proposed that social institutions and psychological reactions may at times be alternative ways of dealing with similar situations; and that at a high level of generality, they may be conceived of as variants of similar (psycho-social) phenomena. Response to sudden bereavement in Albanian Kosova may follow two routes: the customary law arguing stoicism but retribution, and the psychological idiom of `trauma' recently introduced by Western European aid agencies. Similarities and differences between what at first appear two quite distinct responses are outlined.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/002076402128783136

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