"Arguably, Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary
Latvian social anthropologist...One of the best assets of this book
is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages, Skultans
summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the articles
presented in the collection, thus providing readers with a highly
efficient guide to the themes that hold the book together." .
Journal of Baltic Studies
"If anthropologists want to attend to wider audiences and
adjoining disciplinary perspectives, this book is an inspiring
example of how anthropology can be both challenged and enriched by
such dialogue. Few have managed this with Skultans's dexterity or
determination." . JRAI
"This volume brings together for the first time many of
Skultans's important, even ground-breaking essays on psychiatry,
religion and culture. It is a gift for those of us working in the
field." . Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago
For more than three decades the author has been concerned with
issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume
presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and
post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing,
emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the
shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections
with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on
the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a
liberal economy are translated into a medical language."
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