03832nam 2200793 450 991078914090332120211011233448.00-8122-0928-110.9783/9780812209280(CKB)3710000000083172(OCoLC)874148854(CaPaEBR)ebrary10827647(SSID)ssj0001189703(PQKBManifestationID)11669423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189703(PQKBWorkID)11178913(PQKB)11497137(OCoLC)874143666(MdBmJHUP)muse32998(DE-B1597)449812(OCoLC)979881237(DE-B1597)9780812209280(Au-PeEL)EBL3442321(CaPaEBR)ebr10827647(CaONFJC)MIL682648(MiAaPQ)EBC3442321(EXLCZ)99371000000008317220140121h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrDaughters of Parvati women and madness in contemporary India /Sarah PintoPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (294 p.)Contemporary EthnographyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51366-X 0-8122-4583-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Note on Transliterations --Introduction: Love and Affliction --1. Rehabilitating Ammi --2. On Dissolution --3. Moksha and Mishappenings --4. On Dissociation --5. Making a Case --6. Ethics of Dissolution --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.Mentally ill womenCareIndiaPsychiatric hospitalsIndiaWomenMental health servicesIndiaPsychiatryIndiaHistory21st centuryAfrican Studies.Anthropology.Asian Studies.Folklore.Gender Studies.Linguistics.Middle Eastern Studies.Women's Studies.Mentally ill womenCarePsychiatric hospitalsWomenMental health servicesPsychiatryHistory362.2/20954Pinto Sarah634125MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789140903321Daughters of Parvati3848772UNINA