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Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
Vieda Skultans
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Description for Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
Paperback. For 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. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1F; JHM; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
411g
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857451385
SKU
V9780857451385
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About Vieda Skultans
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).
Reviews for Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
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 ... Read more