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Author:   Vieda Skultans
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780857451385

ISBN 10:   0857451383
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Note on Site of Original Publication Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual Chapter 3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush Chapter 4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause Chapter 5. Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness Chapter 6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance Chapter 7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship Chapter 8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia Chapter 9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past Chapter 10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives Chapter 11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative Chapter 12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia Chapter 13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory Chapter 14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia Chapter 15. Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry Bibliography Index

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“Arguably, 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.”  ·  Journal of Baltic Studies “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.”  ·  JRAI “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.”  · Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago

Arguably, 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.A * Journal of Baltic Studies 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.A * JRAI 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.A * Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago

Author Information

Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998).

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