Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations
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Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations
(Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 7)
University of California Press, c2007
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780520247925
Description
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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520247932
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity
João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman
PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY
1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context
of Societal Transformation
Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry
3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor
Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das
4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation
Paul Rabinow
PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS
5. Hamlet in Purgatory
Stephen Greenblatt
6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized
Perpetrator
Allan Young
7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING
8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia
Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject
Ellen Corin
10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City
Anne M. Lovell
PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES
11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology
Evelyn Fox Keller
12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of
Clinical Scientists and Patients
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
13. “To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age”: Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining
Treatment, and Palliative Medicine
Eric L. Krakauer
14. 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
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