Postcolonial Disorders
  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia.

Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World
  4. PART I: DISORDERED STATES
  5. PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE BORDERLANDS
  6. PART III: MADNESS, ALTERITY, AND PSYCHIATRY
  7. Contributors
  8. Index