Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Series Statement

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7

Subject

• Ethnology > Research
• Ethnology > Philosophy
• Subjectivity
• Ethnopsychology
• Medical anthropology
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Ethnology
• Research
• Social Problems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-5121

ISBN

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

LCCN

2006037482

OCLC

76183525

Title

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

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Series

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Biehl, João Guilherme.

Good, Byron.

Kleinman, Arthur.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-5121