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Kevin Rudd’s 2007 Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples acknowledged the devastating impact of child removal on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities and included a commitment that ‘the injustices of the past must never, ne…

This editorial introduces the significance of a trauma-informed approach for teaching and learning in anthropology. It will provide an overview of key terms relating to trauma, and how these might apply to anthropological teaching and learning contexts…

Teaching a module entitled ‘Decolonising Anthropology’ means having to approach numerous difficult and challenging subjects with students. It also means having to respond to and reflect on the traumatic responses that these topics bring about in indivi…

This Teaching Brief is an extended discussion on the findings presented in our article ‘Field of Screams Revisited: Contending with trauma in ethnographic fieldwork’ (Procter, Spector and Freed, this Special Issue). In the article, we report on a surve…

This article explores ways that trauma can come into tension with anthropological methods, specifically during fieldwork. It is based on findings from a survey conducted among anthropologists in 2023, which sought to understand preparation for fieldwor…

Traumatic experiences are prevalent across all cultures and all Higher Education contexts will almost certainly have survivors of trauma in the classroom as students or teachers. Focusing on the UK Higher Education context, this article draws on data i…

The 21st century has seen a dramatic increase in chronic non-infectious diseases, and medical anthropologists have noted a rise, particularly, in the area of mental health. Past studies have shown that a lack of cultural understanding of trauma narrati…

What can the contribution of anthropologists be when working with communities facing post-disaster trauma? What are the role, responsibilities and – equally important – needs of the anthropologist in a post-disaster site? What are the processes for con…

This reflection questions how “trauma-informed anthropology” as a method and reflexive praxis undergirding fieldwork evolves: How do attempts to mitigate re-traumatisation shape the meanings of the relationship between researcher and interlocutor? Issu…

The colonial university has long existed as a site of traumatic incorporation of western knowledge systems into the lives of indigenous populations across the world. Western academic styles of teaching and learning in South Africa reenact indigenous tr…