TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biehl,João
AU  - Good,Byron
AU  - Kleinman,Arthur
TI  - Subjectivity: ethnographic investigations 
T2  - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity
SN  - 9780520939639
AV  - GN345 
U1  - 305.80072 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Research
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Ethnopsychology
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Anthropology, Cultural
KW  - Social Problems
KW  - Anthropology, Medical
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Subjectivité
KW  - Ethnopsychologie
KW  - Anthropologie médicale
KW  - Problèmes sociaux
KW  - ethnopsychology
KW  - aat
KW  - research (function)
KW  - social issues
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Ethnic Studies
KW  - General
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Subjektivität
KW  - gnd
KW  - Psychologische Anthropologie
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - Medizin
KW  - Subjectiviteit
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geweld
KW  - Psychosen
KW  - anthropologists
KW  - economists
KW  - ethnographers
KW  - ethnography
KW  - free trade economics
KW  - human agency
KW  - literary critics
KW  - medical technologies
KW  - modern philosophy
KW  - modern subject
KW  - modes of being
KW  - multidisciplinary
KW  - national identity
KW  - nationalism
KW  - nonfiction
KW  - nonwestern societies
KW  - personal identity
KW  - personal lives
KW  - personhood
KW  - philosophers
KW  - physicians
KW  - psychologists
KW  - science historians
KW  - social scholars
KW  - social sciences
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - terrorism
KW  - transformed communities
KW  - war
KW  - western societies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity; PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY; 1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity; 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation; 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor; 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation; PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS; 5. Hamlet in Purgatory; 6. America's Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator; 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South AfricaPART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING; 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia; 9. The "Other" of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject; 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City; PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES; 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology; 12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients; 13. "To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age": Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment; Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities; Index
N2  - 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 h
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