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The Hidden Patients
“The Hidden Patients” looks at questions of gender in psychiatric publications on the colonial Maghreb, which described “normal” and “abnormal” forms of behaviour among the colonised and compared these findings to descriptions of Europeans who had been diagnosed with psychiatric “abnormalities”. Many psychiatric experts claimed that Muslim women rarely went “mad” and that they only accounted for a negligible percentage of the patients cared for by colonial psychiatrists. Consequently, relatively little space was dedicated to female Muslim patients in the theoretical source material, even though case studies and statistics clearly showed that it was mainly an imaginary absence and that it contradicted the everyday experiences of the psychiatrists.
Locating the Mediterranean
Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology. The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and s...
Thinking About Tears
A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely because tears are not a simple biological fact but rather hang suspended between natural immediacy, on one side, and cultural artifice, on the other, the analysis of crying came to represent an exemplary testing ground for investigations into the enigmatic relations binding the realm of physiology to that of psychology. Thinking About Tears explores how the link between tears and sensibility in France's long eighte...
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Dominot
Fra Tunisi, Parigi, Teheran, Roma, luoghi di avventure erotiche e di apprendimenti esistenziali, Dominot va conoscendo il mondo a prezzo di dure esperienze, fino a scoprire come elemento salvifico il teatro. Conservando in un contesto di violenza e corruzione una sua inconsapevole innocenza, Dominot vive come necessità le forme più libere del sesso, in un intreccio fra gioco, travestimento e ricerca di affettività. Centrale per la sua personalità l’incontro con Fellini che inventa per lui il ragazzo del finale de “La dolce vita”.
Alienation and Freedom
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and moving work will shape how we look at the world.
Il cibo e il sacro
Il cibo è un elemento costante della nostra vita quotidiana e non risponde solamente a bisogni legati al corpo, ma è fatto oggetto di attenzioni di natura simbolica che rimandano a caratteri di sacralità, ritualità e mistero. Non è un caso che il cibo sia presente in ogni realtà comunitaria e nazionale, e sia fattore caratterizzante delle religioni. A partire dai grandi monoteismi si riscontra una centralità del cibo come fattore impregnato di sacralità: si pensi al digiuno nelle sue molteplici espressioni, insieme culturali e religiose.
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