Subjectivity: Ethnographic InvestigationsJoão Biehl, Byron J. Good, Arthur Kleinman Univ of California Press, 11 d’abr. 2007 - 477 pàgines 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 has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today. |
Continguts
1 | |
PART I TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY | 25 |
The Many Faces of Subjectivity | 34 |
How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation | 52 |
Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor | 66 |
4 Anthropological Observation and SelfFormation | 98 |
PART II POLITICAL SUBJECTS | 119 |
5 Hamlet in Purgatory | 128 |
Psychosis Mad Violence and Subjectivity in Indonesia | 243 |
The ExCentricity of the Subject | 273 |
Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City | 315 |
PART IV LIFE TECHNOLOGIES | 341 |
11 Whole Bodies Whole Persons? Cultural Studies Psychoanalysis and Biology | 352 |
Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients | 362 |
Subjectivity LifeSustaining Treatment and Palliative Medicine | 381 |
Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment | 397 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman Previsualització limitada - 2007 |
Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations João Guilherme Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Albie Sachs American amnesty amuk Anthropology apartheid Arthur Kleinman Berkeley Biehl biological body California Press Cambridge University Press Cape Town Catarina Chicago clinical concept contemporary context Corin cultural death Descartes discourse disease disorder economic emerged Essays ethical ethnographic experience feel forms global homeless hospital human Hutu identity individual Indonesia institutions interview Javanese life-sustaining Lifton lives Luhmann madness Mamphela Ramphele Margaret Lock meaning memory mental illness modern moral mother Nancy Scheper-Hughes narratives neurosis observations palliative medicine patients perpetrator person Peter Biehl political practices practitioners Princeton University Press psychiatric psychological psychosis psychotic purgatory reflection religious representations Scheper-Hughes schizophrenia sense social society souls South African space story Subandi subjectivity suffering symbolic symptoms technologies therapeutic things Thucydides tion traumatic treatment truth University of California Veena Veena Das victims Vietnam violence writing Yani York