Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography

Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography

by Mimica, Jadran

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"Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography / edited by Jadran Mimica.

Summary

"Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the intersubjective (social) reality of any given cultural life-world is a vital domain of anthropological and sociological inquiry and understanding."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

Notes

Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis (volume 50, issue 2, summer 2006).

The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 245 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781845454029, 1845454022
  • oclc:ocm85892400
  • LC Classification:GN502
  • Dewey Decimal:155.8

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