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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Research; Ethnology - Philosophy; Subjectivity; Ethnopsychology; Medical anthropology
• Soggetto non controllato: anthropologists; economists; ethnographers; ethnography; free trade economics; human agency; literary critics; medical technologies; modern philosophy; modern subject; modes of being; multidisciplinary; national identity; nationalism; nonfiction; nonwestern societies; personal identity; personal lives; personhood; philosophers; physicians; psychologists; science historians; social scholars; social sciences; subjectivity; terrorism; transformed communities; war; western societies
• Altri autori: BiehlJoao Guilherme GoodByron KleinmanArthur
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Subjectivity
• ISBN: 1-282-35844-8; 9786612358449; 0-520-93963-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780638403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity