Among Neighbors. The Internal Armed Conflict and the Politics of Reconciliation in Peru
"As we argue in this text, the rural Quechua-speaking population manages theories both of the etiology of their ailments and of the methods for treating what ails them. Their therapeutic repertoire demonstrates the close links that exist between mental health, the processes of the administration of justice — or the absence thereof — and the micro-politics of reconciliation. These are processes that go far beyond an overly clinical perspective excessively focused on 'the psychological,' divorced from the socio-historical context. The processes of reconstruction and reconciliation are, in themselves, therapeutic practices. Investigating these processes allows us to trace those social transformations that overflow psychometric instruments and their synchronic cross-sections of suffering, frozen in time and extracted from the social and moral context." Kimberly Theidon.