Postcolonial Disorders [Paperback]

The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia.

Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Goodis Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University and author of many publications, includingAmerican Medicine: The Quest for Competence(UC Press) and coeditor ofPain as Human Experience(UC Press).Sandra Teresa Hydeis Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, and the author ofEating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDSin Southwest China (UC Press).Sarah Pintois Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author ofWhere There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India.Byron Goodis Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, author ofMedicine, Rationality and Experience,and coeditor ofSubjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations(UC Press), among other books.

Acknowledgments
Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World
Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, and Sarah Pinto

PART I: DISORDERED STATES
1. Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain
Bego?a Aretxaga
2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary l#