Subjectivity And Suffering In American Culture

Author : S. Parish
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230613188

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Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture by S. Parish Pdf

Winner ofThe Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology!!! This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on the nature of the human self. Using an intimate life history approach, it examines ways people struggle to cope with experiences that can shatter their lives: a diagnosis of cancer, the death of a spouse, a parent s mental illness. The volume takes readers deep into private worlds of suffering in American culture, and invites reflection on what the subjectivity of suffering tells us about being human. Addressing universal themes in a way that fully recognizes the individuality of those who experience a personal crisis, Parish shows how individuals personalize the cultural and psychological resources in which they find their possible selves.

Author : João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520247932

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Subjectivity by João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman Pdf

Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.

Author : H. Russell Bernard,Clarence C. Gravlee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120723

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Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology by H. Russell Bernard,Clarence C. Gravlee Pdf

The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in practice. The second edition also reflects major developments of the past decade, including: the rising prominence of mixed methods, the emergence of new technologies, and evolving views on ethnographic writing. Spanning the chain of research, from designing a project through methods of data collection and interpretive analysis, the Handbook features new chapters on ethnography of online communities, social survey research, and network and geospatial analysis. Considered discussion of ethics, epistemology, and the presentation of research results to diverse audiences round out the volume. The result is an essential guide for all scholars, professionals, and advanced students who employ fieldwork.

Author : Tannistha Samanta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789811016547

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Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology by Tannistha Samanta Pdf

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the “problems” associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical. Based on original research, this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequality and its intersection with age, gender, health, family and social relations. In the process, the studies herein highlight the unique historical, institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically, societies in transition including India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, China, Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness, wellbeing, discrimination, relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall, the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the socio-cultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas, disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry, training and practice.

Author : European Association for American Studies. Conference
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arts, American
ISBN : 3825807908

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Feeling in Others by European Association for American Studies. Conference Pdf

Feeling in Others: Essays on Empathy and Suffering in Modern American Culture addresses different kinds of suffering as presented in texts, visual and verbal, and proposes empathy as an ethical exigency of the act of reading and critical tool. The volume brings together contributions from Americanists in France, Norway, Austria, Hungary, and Spain. It examines paintings, comic strips, autobiographies, fictional narratives, and poems on pain from a variety of critical perspectives, bringing together the fields of cognitive psychology, phenomenology, literary criticism, and architecture to account for the complexity of the contagious difference of pain.

Author : Mary Romero
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800378056

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Research Handbook on Intersectionality by Mary Romero Pdf

Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004225343

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Religion and the Body by Anonim Pdf

This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.

Author : Janis H. Jenkins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520287099

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Extraordinary Conditions by Janis H. Jenkins Pdf

"With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jennifer Huberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108835930

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Transhumanism by Jennifer Huberman Pdf

Through a detailed exploration of the study of transhumanism, this book introduces students to the discipline of cultural anthropology.

Author : Veena Das
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520216082

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Violence and Subjectivity by Veena Das Pdf

A collection of original essays that address the ways in which violence manifests itself on societal and interpersonal levels, analyzing how different kinds of violence are, and are not, interpreted on the world stage. By looking at hotspots of conflict, the contributors discuss the nature of violence in an age of worldwide "crisis management."

Author : Regine Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527562561

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Exclusion, Exile, and the Wandering Jew in Jewish Literature by Regine Rosenthal Pdf

Based on a medieval extrabiblical Christian legend, the figure of the Wandering Jew has long served as a negative representation of all Jews. Condemned by Christ to endless wandering and everlasting life, the Wandering Jew has lived on ever since in literature and criticism as a legendary and symbolic paradigm, ranging from anti-Jewish stereotype to the generalized cultural Other. While Romanticism took him outside of the Jewish context, nineteenth-century antisemitic racism again adopted the figure in an evolving discourse that culminated in his image in Nazi propaganda as the despicable, racialized cultural Other who needed to be exterminated. The present work takes up this trope in all its complex, intersecting facets and shifts the focus of the inquiry from the perspective of the dominant culture to that of the Jewish Other. Starting with nineteenth-century American popular and mainstream writers, it explores the responses to, and the subversions and reinventions of, the paradigmatic figure in works by a variety of European, Canadian, and American Jewish writers and thinkers. It also opens the discussion to the broader issues of contemporary society and politics, such as pervasive uprootedness, transborder migration, the plight of refugees, and states’ rights versus human rights.

Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520389434

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Being Single in India by Sarah Lamb Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing that never-married women are able to illuminate their society's broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling look at prevailing systems of gender, sexuality, kinship, freedom, and social belonging in India today.

Author : Carolin Demuth,Pirkko Raudaskoski,Sanna Raudaskoski
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889636907

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Lived Culture and Psychology: Sharedness and Normativity as Discursive, Embodied and Affective Engagements with the World in Social Interaction by Carolin Demuth,Pirkko Raudaskoski,Sanna Raudaskoski Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (N.M.)
ISBN : IND:30000036842734

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1990 Census of Population and Housing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054173375

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf