Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling, and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. As Biehl painstakingly relates Catarina's words to a vanished world and elucidates her condition, we learn of subjectivities unmade and remade under economic pressures, pharmaceuticals as moral technologies, a public common sense that lets the unsound and unproductive die, and anthropology's unique power to work through these juxtaposed fields. Vita's methodological innovations, bold fieldwork, and rigorous social theory make it an essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world.
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2019-10-03 20:30 [吳易澄](新竹馬偕醫院精神科醫師) [https://www.openbook.org.tw/article/p-62621] 齣身神學與哲學,再踏入人類學領域的硃歐.畢尤(João Biehl),長期進行全球健康議題的書寫。他的研究一嚮關注在最黑暗的人性角落裡,人們奮鬥掙紮求生存活的過程與意...
評分2019-10-03 20:30 [吳易澄](新竹馬偕醫院精神科醫師) [https://www.openbook.org.tw/article/p-62621] 齣身神學與哲學,再踏入人類學領域的硃歐.畢尤(João Biehl),長期進行全球健康議題的書寫。他的研究一嚮關注在最黑暗的人性角落裡,人們奮鬥掙紮求生存活的過程與意...
評分2019-10-03 20:30 [吳易澄](新竹馬偕醫院精神科醫師) [https://www.openbook.org.tw/article/p-62621] 齣身神學與哲學,再踏入人類學領域的硃歐.畢尤(João Biehl),長期進行全球健康議題的書寫。他的研究一嚮關注在最黑暗的人性角落裡,人們奮鬥掙紮求生存活的過程與意...
評分2019-10-03 20:30 [吳易澄](新竹馬偕醫院精神科醫師) [https://www.openbook.org.tw/article/p-62621] 齣身神學與哲學,再踏入人類學領域的硃歐.畢尤(João Biehl),長期進行全球健康議題的書寫。他的研究一嚮關注在最黑暗的人性角落裡,人們奮鬥掙紮求生存活的過程與意...
評分2019-10-03 20:30 [吳易澄](新竹馬偕醫院精神科醫師) [https://www.openbook.org.tw/article/p-62621] 齣身神學與哲學,再踏入人類學領域的硃歐.畢尤(João Biehl),長期進行全球健康議題的書寫。他的研究一嚮關注在最黑暗的人性角落裡,人們奮鬥掙紮求生存活的過程與意...
圖書標籤: 人類學 民族誌 醫學人類學 Ethnography Anthropology 文化人類學 經驗研究 violence
一個患有遺傳性神經病癥的婦女是如何一步步被當作萬劫不復的精神病人被丟棄等死的。作者寫的剋製、緩慢、抽絲剝繭。有攝影和詩和精神分析和偵探小說氣質的個人民族誌。確實是the love of anthropology/ 補:但是有學院派寫作的規矩和無聊,引太多德勒茲瞭引來引去沒覺得有意思
評分謝謝C老師推薦的第一本書就奠定瞭整本博士論文的基調……
評分太傷心。
評分Catarina's life and destiny was so sad. Dehumanized humans.
評分謝謝C老師推薦的第一本書就奠定瞭整本博士論文的基調……
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