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Title:

Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations / edited by João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnology--Research.
Ethnology--Philosophy.
Subjectivity.
Ethnopsychology.
Medical anthropology.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnology.
Research.
Social problems.
Subjectiviteit.
Geweld.
Psychosen.
Ethnologie--Recherche
Ethnologie--Philosophie.
Subjectivité.
Ethnopsychologie.
Anthropologie médicale.

Other Authors:

Biehl, João Guilherme.
Good, Byron.
Kleinman, Arthur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity. Anthropological observation and self-formation / Paul Rabinow -- Part I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity. The vanishing subject : the many faces of subjectivity / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- The experiential basis of subjectivity : how individuals change in the context of societal transformation / Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry -- How the body speaks : illness and the lifeworld among the urban poor / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das -- Anthropological observation and self-formation / Paul Rabinow --
Part III. Madness and social suffering. Hoarders and scrappers : madness and the social person in the interstices of the city / Anne M. Lovell -- America's transient mental illness : a brief history of the self-traumatized perpetrator / Allan Young -- Violence and the politics of remorse : lessons from South Africa / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Part III. Madness and social suffering. The subject of mental illness : psychosis, mad violence, and subjectivity in Indonesia / Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- The "Other" of culture in psychosis : the ex-centricity of the subject / Ellen Corin -- Hoarders and scrappers : madness and the social person in the interstices of the city / Anne M. Lovell --
Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M.J. Fischer. The medical imaginary and the biotechnical embrace : subjective experiences of clinical scientists and patients / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- "To be freed from the infirmity of (the) age" : subjectivity, life-sustaining treatment, and palliative medicine / Eric L. Krakauer -- A life : between psychiatric drugs and social abandonment / João Biehl -- Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M.J. Fischer.

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7

ISBN:

0520247930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520247932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520247922 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520247925 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76183525

LCCN:

2006037482

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)