Subjectivity Ethnographic Investigations

Name: Subjectivity Ethnographic Investigations
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ISBN: 9780520247932

ISBN-10: 0520247930

ISBN-13: 9780520247932

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joï¿½o Biehl, Byron J. Good, Arthur Kleinman

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This volume is an extended conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, a preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Essays consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free-trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces.

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 477
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Arthur Kleinmanis Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University;Yunxiang Yanis a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles;Jing Junis a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing);Sing Leeis a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong;Everett Zhangis a Professor at Princeton University;Pan Tianshuis a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai);Wu FeiandGuo Jinhuaare Professors at Peking University (Beijing).



Acknowledgments


List of Contributors


Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity




Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity



The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity




The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation




How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor




Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation




Political Subjects



Hamlet in Purgatory




America's Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator




Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa




Madness and Social Suffering



The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia




The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject




Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City




Life Technologies



Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology




The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients




"To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age": Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine




A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment



Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities



Index