{"product_id":"empathy-and-healing-essays-in-medical-and-narrative-anthropology-9780857451385","title":"Empathy and Healing Essays in Medical and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eArguably, Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist…One of the best assets of this book is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages, Skultans summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the articles presented in the collection, thus providing readers with a highly efficient guide to the themes that hold the book together.\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of Baltic Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“If anthropologists want to attend to wider audiences and adjoining disciplinary perspectives, this book is an inspiring example of how anthropology can be both challenged and enriched by such dialogue. Few have managed this with Skultans’s dexterity or determination.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  JRAI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This volume brings together for the first time many of Skultans's important, even ground-breaking essays on psychiatry, religion and culture. It is a gift for those of us working in the field.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Tanya Luhrmann\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on Site of Original Publication\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038902583639,"sku":"9780857451385","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451385.jpg?v=1750941872","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empathy-and-healing-essays-in-medical-and-narrative-anthropology-9780857451385","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}