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Postcolonial Disorders

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Description for Postcolonial Disorders Paperback. Explores 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. Editor(s): Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio; Hyde, Sandra Teresa; Pinto, Sarah; Good, Byron J. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMC; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520252240
SKU
V9780520252240
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About M-J D Good
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University and author of many publications, including American Medicine: The Quest for Competence (UC Press) and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (UC Press). Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, and the author of Eating Spring Rice: The ... Read more

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"Fascinating and elegantly composed essays."
Steve Odero Ouma and Aakash Singh Metapsychology Online "A timely, important, and extremely well-written work."
E. Wellin Choice "Powerful and well-crafted essays (by some of the most thoughtful people in the field)." Common Knowledge

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