Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations /
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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| Series: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction :
- Rethinking subjectivity /
- João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman
- 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 II. Political subjects.
- Hamlet in purgatory /
- Stephen Greenblatt
- 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
- Part IV. Life technologies.
- Whole bodies, whole persons? : cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and biology /
- Evelyn Fox Keller
- 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.