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Zusatztext " Arguably! Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist?One of the best assets of this book is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages! Skultans summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the articles presented in the collection! thus providing readers with a highly efficient guide to the themes that hold the book together. " · Journal of Baltic Studies "If anthropologists want to attend to wider audiences and adjoining disciplinary perspectives! this book is an inspiring example of how anthropology can be both challenged and enriched by such dialogue. Few have managed this with Skultans's dexterity or determination." · JRAI "This volume brings together for the first time many of Skultans's important! even ground-breaking essays on psychiatry! religion and culture. It is a gift for those of us working in the field." · Tanya Luhrmann ! University of Chicago Informationen zum Autor Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998). Klappentext For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion! suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales! Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing! emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory! autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture! it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language. Zusammenfassung For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion! suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales! Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing! emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory! autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture! it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Note on Site of Original Publication Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual Chapter 3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush Chapter 4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause Chapter 5. Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness Chapter 6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance Chapter 7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship Chapter 8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia Chapter 9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past Chapter 10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives Chapter 11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative Chapter 12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia Chapter 13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory Chapter 14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia Ch...
