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

Published CA : University of California Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (478 pages) Series Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7 Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7. 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 Summary 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 non-Western societies. Contributors 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 h Analysis anthropologists economists ethnographers ethnography free trade economics human agency literary critics medical technologies modern philosophy modern subject modes of being multidisciplinary national identity nationalism nonfiction nonwestern societies personal identity personal lives personhood philosophers physicians psychologists science historians social scholars social sciences subjectivity terrorism transformed communities war western societies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Ethnology -- Research Ethnology -- Philosophy. Subjectivity. Ethnopsychology. Medical anthropology. Ethnology. Research. Social problems. Anthropology, Cultural Ethnology Ethnopsychology Research Social Problems Anthropology, Medical 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 Research Ethnology Ethnology -- Philosophy Ethnology -- Research Ethnopsychology Medical anthropology Subjectivity Subjektivität Psychologische Anthropologie Anthropologie Medizin Ethnologie Subjectiviteit. Geweld. Psychosen. Form Electronic book Author Biehl, João Good, Byron Kleinman, Arthur LC no. 2006037482 ISBN 9780520939639 0520939638 9780520247925 0520247922 9780520247932 0520247930 9786612358449 6612358440

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