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Postcolonial disorders / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.].

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Postcolonial disorders / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.].
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

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  • Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio
  • Harvard Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services Research.
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Description
xii, 465 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of violent Basque youth, visionary Indonesian artists, bureaucrats and members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and Zaire, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors' analyses place the political at the heart of the psychological and the psychological at the heart of the political as the starting point for rethinking subjectivity.
Series Statement
[Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 8]
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Ethnographic studies in subjectivity 8.
Subjects
Note
  • Outgrowth of a seminar held 2000-2001 as part of the Harvard Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services Research and supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Postcolonial disorders : reflections on subjectivity in the contemporary world / Byron J. Good ... [et al.] -- Madness and the politically real : reflections on violence in postdictatorial Spain / Begoña Aretxaga -- Indonesia Sakit : Indonesian disorders and the subjective experience and interpretive politics of contemporary Indonesian artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good -- The political dimensions of emasculation : fantasy, conspiracy, and estrangement among populist leaders in post-new order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. MacDougall -- Haunting ghosts : madness, gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the democratic era / Erica Caple James --
  • Laboratory of intervention : the humanitarian governance of the postcommunist Balkan territories / Mariella Pandolfi -- Everyday AIDS practices : contestations of borders and infectious disease in southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Of maids and prostitutes : Indonesian female migrants in the new Asian hinterlands / Johan Lindquist -- Ambivalent inquiry : dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton -- To live with what would otherwise be unendurable, II : caught in the borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M. J. Fischer -- The Mucker War : a history of violence and silence / João Biehl -- Institutional persons and personal institutions : the asylum and marginality in rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris --
  • The knot of the soul : postcolonial conundrums, madness, and the imagination / Stefania Pandolfo -- Consuming grief : infant death in the postcolonial time of intervention / Sarah Pinto -- Postcoloniality as the aftermath of terror among Vietnamese refugees / Janis H. Jenkins and Michael Hollifield -- Cross-cultural psychiatry in medical-legal documentation of suffering : human rights abuses involving transnational corporations and the Yadana pipeline project in Burma / Kathleen Allden.
ISBN
  • 9780520252233 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520252233 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520252240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520252241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007029461
OCLC
  • 156975270
  • SCSB-14250674
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library