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Zusatztext "Has the makings of a key reference text on a topic that will continue to provide the basis for anthropological investigation for some time." Informationen zum Autor João Biehl is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (UC Press) and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. His website is www.joaobiehl.net. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Departments of Social Medicine and Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of Medicine! Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective and co-editor of several volumes! including Culture and Depression (UC Press). Arthur Kleinman is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of several books! including Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture ; Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine (both from UC Press); and! most recently! What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger. Among his coedited volumes are Social Suffering (UC Press) and Global Pharmaceuticals. Klappentext “This volume is destined to set the tone and agenda for discussion of subjectivity for a considerable time. It illuminates the threads that span the vast existential space between the edifice of technologized global institutions and the nuanced particularities of individual experience. This is a dynamic (definite, state-of-the art) contribution to anthropology and the human sciences by a stellar cast of authors.” —Thomas Csordas, author of Language, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement “This is a timely and much needed volume. No other works address the cultural, political, and social dimensions of subjectivity in such a fresh and conceptual way.” —Robert Desjarlais, author of Sensory Biographies Zusammenfassung Considers 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. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity João Biehl! Byron Good! and Arthur Kleinman PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY 1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity Amélie Oksenberg Rorty 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation Paul Rabinow PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS 5. Hamlet in Purgatory Stephen Greenblatt 6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator Allan Young 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa Nancy Scheper-Hughes PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis! Mad Violence! and Subjectivity in Indonesia Byron J. Good! Subandi! and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject Ellen Corin 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City Anne M. Lovell PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 11. Whole Bodies! Whole Persons? Cultural Studies! Psychoanalysis! and Biology
