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Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile.
By Nia Parson. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. 248 pp., $24.95 List; $9.99 eBook) Book Review by Kimberly Mathis Pitts In Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile, anthropologist Nia Parson examines the role of the state in the quotidian violence of a post-Pinochet Chile through the life histories of three women…