{"product_id":"subjectivity-ethnographic-investigations-volume-7-paperback","title":"Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations Volume 7 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoão Biehl\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eByron J. Good\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is destined to set the tone and agenda for discussion of subjectivity for a considerable time. It illuminates the threads that span the vast existential space between the edifice of technologized global institutions and the nuanced particularities of individual experience. This is a dynamic (definite, state-of-the art) contribution to anthropology and the human sciences by a stellar cast of authors. --Thomas Csordas, author of \u003ci\u003eLanguage, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a timely and much needed volume. No other works address the cultural, political, and social dimensions of subjectivity in such a fresh and conceptual way.\" --Robert Desjarlais, author of \u003ci\u003eSensory Biographies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Biehl \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press) and \u003ci\u003eWill to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival.\u003c\/i\u003e His website is www.joaobiehl.net. \u003cb\u003eByron Good \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Departments of Social Medicine and Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMedicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of several volumes, including \u003ci\u003eCulture and Depression\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press). \u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003ePatients and Healers in the Context of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWriting at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e (both from UC Press); and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eWhat Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger.\u003c\/i\u003e Among his coedited volumes are \u003ci\u003eSocial Suffering \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press) and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Pharmaceuticals.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 477\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 8.9 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453378478258,"sku":"9780520247932","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fe146aee5f2d0c70eceeb826baf5ac2d.webp?v=1778828979","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/subjectivity-ethnographic-investigations-volume-7-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}