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Other authors / contributors: | Biehl, João.
Good, Byron.
Kleinman, Arthur.
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ISBN: | 9780520939639 0520939638 9780520247925 0520247922 9780520247932 0520247930 1282358448 9781282358447
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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 h.
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Other form: | Print version: Subjectivity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520247925
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