Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations /

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Imprint:CA : University of California Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (478 pages)
Language:English
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 7.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123406
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Other authors / contributors:Biehl, João.
Good, Byron.
Kleinman, Arthur.
ISBN:9780520939639
0520939638
9780520247925
0520247922
9780520247932
0520247930
1282358448
9781282358447
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Subjectivity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520247925