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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780638403321

Titolo

Subjectivity [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic investigations / / edited by Joao Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-35844-8

9786612358449

0-520-93963-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Collana

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 7

Altri autori (Persone)

BiehlJoao Guilherme

GoodByron

KleinmanArthur

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology - Research

Ethnology - Philosophy

Subjectivity

Ethnopsychology

Medical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity -- Introduction -- 1 The Vanishing Subject -- 2 The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity -- 3 How the Body Speaks -- 4 Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation -- Introduction -- 5 Hamlet in Purgatory -- 6 America's Transient Mental Illness -- 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse -- Introduction -- 8. The Subject of Mental Illness -- 9. The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis -- 10 Hoarders and Scrappers -- Introduction -- 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? -- 12 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace -- 13 "To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age" -- 14 A Life -- Epilogue: To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.