Subjectivity Ethnographic Investigations

• Main Authors: Biehl, João Guilherme, Good, Byron, Kleinman, Arthur
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, Calif University of California Press 2007
• Edition: 1
• Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
• Subjects: anthropologists; Anthropology; economists; ethnographers; ethnography; Ethnology; Ethnology > Philosophy; Ethnology > Research; Ethnopsychology; free trade economics; human agency; literary critics; Medical anthropology; Medical enthropology; medical technologies; modern philosophy; modern subject; modes of being; multidisciplinary; national identity; nationalism; nonfiction; nonwestern societies; personal identity; personal lives; personhood; philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy of science; physicians; psychologists; science historians; social scholars; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Social science research; social sciences; Subjectivity; terrorism; transformed communities; war; western societies; nonwestern societies; national identity; social scholars; personhood; modes of being; physicians; anthropologists; human agency; free trade economics; terrorism; western societies; science historians; nationalism; ethnography; economists; modern subject; multidisciplinary; subjectivity; personal lives; ethnographers; transformed communities; war; nonfiction; personal identity; philosophers; psychologists; social sciences; medical technologies; modern philosophy; literary critics
• ISBN: 0520247922; 9780520247925; 0520247930; 9780520247932; 0520939638; 9780520939639
• DOI: 10.1525/9780520939639

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.