Dissertation Research: Violence, Gender and Illness in Post-Conflict Mozambique

该项目支持罗格斯大学人类学学生的论文研究，研究莫桑比克暴力和流离失所对疾病的影响。结合政治经济和象征的观点，学生研究冲突如何重新配置疾病和性别关系的概念。这项研究将记录社会不稳定、创伤性暴力和不断变化的疾病观念之间的关系，以及生物医学和土著医学话语之间的关系，重点是创伤后应激、艾滋病和不孕症。数据收集将采用多种方法抽样框架，包括生活史、半结构化访谈、参与者观察、家庭调查和档案研究，主要集中在穆塔拉镇，这是一个冲突激烈的地方，约750户人口中90%的人在别处寻求庇护，然后返回。该镇也是地区医院的所在地。这项研究将增进我们对暴力、流离失所和遣返对男女日常角色的社会建构的影响的理解。此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并提高我们对世界这一重要领域的认识。

9902677Guarnaccia / Marlin This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from Rutgers University studying the impact of violence and displacement on illness in Mozambique. Combining political-economic and symbolic perspectives, the student examines how conflict reconfigures conceptions of illness and gender relations. The study will document the relation between social destabilization, traumatic violence and changing conceptions of illness, as well as the relationship between biomedical and indigenous medical discourses, focusing on post-traumatic stress, AIDS, and infertility. Data will be collected using a multi-method sampling frame including life-histories, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, a household survey, and archival research, mainly on the district seat town of Mutarara, a site of intense conflict where 90 percent of the population of about 750 households sought refuge elsewhere then returned. The town is also the site of the district hospital. The study will advance our understanding of the effects of violence, displacement and repatriation on the social construction of the daily roles of men and women. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist, and advances our knowledge of this important area of the world.