Author | : João Biehl |
File Size | : 51,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 11 April 2007 |
ISBN | : 9780520247932 |
Pages | : 477 pages |
Subjectivity by João Biehl Book PDF Summary
Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.