Table of Contents

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 Begona Aretxaga 2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good 3. The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia John M. MacDougall 4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era Erica Caple James 5. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories Mariella Pandolfi PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE BORDERLANDS 6. Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China Sandra Teresa Hyde 7. Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands Johan Lindquist 8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo David Eaton 9. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel Michael M.J. Fischer PART III: MADNESS, ALTERITY, AND PSYCHIATRY 10. The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence Joao Biehl 11. Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland A. Jamie Saris 12. The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination Stefania Pandolfo 13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention Sarah Pinto 14. Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees Janis H. Jenkins and Michael Hollifield 15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma Kathleen Allden Contributors Index

About the Author

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University and author of many publications, including American Medicine: The Quest for Competence (UC Press) and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (UC Press). Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, and the author of Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China (UC Press). Sarah Pinto is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author of Where There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience, and coeditor of Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (UC Press), among other books.

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