| Postcolonial Disorders: Volume 8 Contributor(s): Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio (Editor), Hyde, Sandra Teresa (Editor), Pinto, Sarah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520252241 ISBN-13: 9780520252240 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and Zaire, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. "Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Medical | Diseases - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| LCCN: 2007029461 |
| Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.38" W x 8.96" (1.36 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso |