Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Author | : Jadran Mimica |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857456946 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857456946 |
Rating | : 4/5 (946 Downloads) |
Download or read book Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography written by Jadran Mimica and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.