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Social Suffering
Kleinman
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Paperback. "Social Suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that result from what political, economic and institutional power does to people. Experts have joined together to investigate the cultural representations of human suffering. Editor(s): Kleinman, Arthur; Das, Veena; Lock, Margaret M. Num Pages: 425 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602. 425 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Kleinman, Arthur; Das, Veena; Lock, Margaret. "Social Suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that result from what political, economic and institutional power does to people. Experts have joined together to investigate the cultural representations of human suffering. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight: 602.
"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation allows us to see the twentieth century in a new frame, with new emphases. Anthropologists, historians, literary theorists, social medicine experts, and scholars engaged in the study of religion join together to investigate the ... Read more
"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation allows us to see the twentieth century in a new frame, with new emphases. Anthropologists, historians, literary theorists, social medicine experts, and scholars engaged in the study of religion join together to investigate the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
425
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
425
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520209954
SKU
V9780520209954
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About Kleinman
Arthur Kleinman is Maude and Lilian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. His most recent book is Writing at the Margin (California, 1996). Veena Das is Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi and author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Approach ... Read more
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