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Subjectivity

Ethnographic Investigations

By: Joao Biehl (Editor), Byron J. Good (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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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"Has the makings of a key reference text on a topic that will continue to provide the basis for anthropological investigation for some time." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity	p. 1
Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity	p. 25
The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity	p. 34
The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation	p. 52
How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor	p. 66
Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation	p. 98
Political Subjects	p. 119
Hamlet in Purgatory	p. 128
America's Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator	p. 155
Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa	p. 179
Madness and Social Suffering	p. 235
The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia	p. 243
The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject	p. 273
Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City	p. 315
Life Technologies	p. 341
Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology	p. 352
The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients	p. 362
"To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age": Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine	p. 381
A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment	p. 397
Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities	p. 423
Index	p. 447
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