Subjectivity :

Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations / edited by João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xi, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

rethinking subjectivity / The vanishing subject : the many faces of subjectivity / The experiential basis of subjectivity : how individuals change in the context of societal transformation / How the body speaks : illness and the lifeworld among the urban poor / Anthropological observation and self-formation / Hamlet in purgatory / America's transient mental illness : a brief history of the self-traumatized perpetrator / Violence and the politics of remorse : lessons from South Africa / The subject of mental illness : psychosis, mad violence, and subjectivity in Indonesia / The "Other" of culture in psychosis : the ex-centricity of the subject / Hoarders and scrappers : madness and the social person in the interstices of the city / Whole bodies, whole persons? : cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and biology / The medical imaginary and the biotechnical embrace : subjective experiences of clinical scientists and patients / "To be freed from the infirmity of (the) age" : subjectivity, life-sustaining treatment, and palliative medicine / A life : between psychiatric drugs and social abandonment / to live with what would otherwise be unendurable : return(s) to subjectivities / João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman -- Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry -- Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das -- Paul Rabinow -- Stephen Greenblatt -- Allan Young -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Ellen Corin -- Anne M. Lovell -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- Eric L. Krakauer -- João Biehl -- Michael M.J. Fischer. Introduction : Part I. Transformations in social experience and subjectivity. Part II. Political subjects. Part III. Madness and social suffering. Part IV. Life technologies. Epilogue :

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Ethnology--Research.
Ethnology--Philosophy.
Subjectivity.
Ethnopsychology.
Medical anthropology.

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