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

Author/creator: Biehl, João Guilherme, Good, Byron, Kleinman, Arthur.

Call Numbers: N306/ 245

Record Identifier: 74VK7vpO5bzX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xi, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Introduction : rethinking subjectivity / Joao Biehl, Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman -- Pt. I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity -- 1. The vanishing subject : the many faces of subjectivity / Amelie 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 / Joao Biehl -- Epilogue : to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / Michael M. J. Fischer.

Publishers: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Notes: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7. Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 306

MMS ID: 991022757119702626