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- Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
summary
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider 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; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- List of Contributors
- pp. ix-xi
- PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS
- pp. 119-127
- 5. Hamlet in Purgatory
- pp. 128-154
- PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING
- pp. 235-242
- PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES
- pp. 341-351
- Production Notes
- p. 465
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520939639
Related ISBN(s)
9780520247925
MARC Record
OCLC
667011224
Pages
477
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No