Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Methodology, Anthropology
| Author: | ISBN: | 9780857456946 | |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books | Publication: | May 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9780857456946 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Publication: | May 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
