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Title:

Postcolonial disorders / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 465 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Medical anthropology.
Diseases--Social aspects.
Colonization--Social aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Subjectivity.
Anthropology--methods.
Colonialism.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Politics.
Social Medicine.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Vulnerable Populations--psychology.
Anthropologie médicale.
Ethnopsychiatrie.
Subjectivité.
Maladies--Aspect social.
Colonisation--Aspect social.
Mondialisation--Aspect social.
Psychologie et anthropologie.

Other Authors:

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Postcolonial disorders : reflections on subjectivity in the contemporary world / Byron J. Good ... [et al.] -- Madness and the politically real : reflections on violence in postdictatorial Spain / Begoña Aretxaga -- Indonesia Sakit : Indonesian disorders and the subjective experience and interpretive politics of contemporary Indonesian artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good -- The political dimensions of emasculation : fantasy, conspiracy, and estrangement among populist leaders in post-new order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. McDougall -- Haunting ghosts : madness, gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the democratic era / Erica Caple James -- Laboratory of intervention : the humanitarian governance of the postcommunist Balkan territories / Mariella Pandolfi -- Everyday AIDS practices : contestations of borders and infectious disease in southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Of maids and prostitutes : Indonesian female migrants in the new Asian hinterlands / Johan Lindquist -- Ambivalent inquiry : dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton -- To live with what would otherwise be unendurable, II : caught in the borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M. J. Fischer -- The Mucker War : a history of violence and silence / João Biehl -- Institutional persons and personal institutions : the asylum and marginality in rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris -- The knot of the soul : postcolonial conundrums, madness, and the imagination / Stefania Pandolfo -- Consuming grief : infant death in the postcolonial time of intervention / Sarah Pinto -- Postcoloniality as the aftermath of terror among Vietnamese refugees / Janis H. Jenkins, Michael Hollifield -- Cross-cultural psychiatry in medical-legal documentation of suffering : human rights abuses involving transnational corporations and Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma / Kathleen Allden.

Series:

[Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 8]

ISBN:

0520252241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520252240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520252233 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520252233 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007029461

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)