Postcolonial Disorders - (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) by Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good & Sandra Teresa Hyde & Sarah Pinto & Byron J Good

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"Powerful and well-crafted essays (by some of the most thoughtful people in the field)."-- "Common Knowledge" (9/1/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"A timely, important, and extremely well-written work."--E. Wellin "Choice" (2/1/2009 12:00:00 AM)

"Fascinating and elegantly composed essays."--Steve Odero Ouma and Aakash Singh "Metapsychology Online" (8/5/2008 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University and author of many publications, including American Medicine: The Quest for Competence (UC Press) and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (UC Press). Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, and the author of Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China (UC Press). Sarah Pinto is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author of Where There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience, and coeditor of Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (UC Press), among other books.