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cultural trauma  

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  • An important feature of social life is traumatic experiences felt by collective actors when public meanings get shattered or drastically rearticulated. This entry charts the various aspects of cultural trauma and how it relates to groups and in particular to collective identity, discusses the role of emotions, and explains cultural traumas as essentially processes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Collective Identity and Cultural Trauma]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Z13GXN19-H

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