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This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Biehl, João, Good, Byron, Kleinman, Arthur
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Research.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Subjectivity.
Ethnopsychology.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnology.
Research.
Social problems.
Anthropology, Cultural
Ethnology
Ethnopsychology
Research
Social Problems
Anthropology, Medical
Ethnologie > Recherche.
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Subjectivité.
Ethnopsychologie.
Anthropologie médicale.
Ethnologie.
Recherche.
Problèmes sociaux.
ethnopsychology.
research (function)
social issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Social problems
Subjektivität
Psychologische Anthropologie
Anthropologie
Medizin
Ethnologie
Subjectiviteit.
Geweld.
Psychosen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity; PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY; 1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity; 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation; 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor; 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation; PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS; 5. Hamlet in Purgatory; 6. America's Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator.
  • 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South AfricaPART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING; 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia; 9. The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject; 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City; PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES; 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology; 12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients.
  • 13. "To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age": Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment; Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities; Index.

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