About the Author

Catherine Smith is an anthropologist who works across medical anthropology, political anthropology and global health research in order to understand the politics of health in the Asia Pacific region.

Reviews

"Smith's innovative approach considers how a distinctively Acehnese notion of trauma serves as a means of coping with suffering and displacing or deferring stigma. This is a valuable corrective to much of the critique of humanitarianism, in which the phenomenon of trauma is often taken for granted, as if it were merely an objective category of experience."--Mary Margaret Steedly, Harvard University