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Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer

Lou-Marié Kruger

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Description:This book is about the slow violence of poverty. Lou-Marie Kruger’s clinical and research encounters in the Dwarsrivier Valley attempt to give an account of the complex realities and lived experiences of low-income mothers in post-apartheid South Africa. Focusing specifically on maternal life in a semi-rural community, the work can be regarded as a South African case study, showing how particular happenings, specific events, unique interactions, and larger societal processes become intertwined to result in complex narratives. Such intricate narratives do not only show how the past always impacts the present, but can also implicitly suggest how and why such stories are prone to be repeated. While the book can be seen as a study of a place and a community, the lives of individual people and how they are embedded in the larger matrix of culture, history, and the political economy are also present. The pertinent question here is one asked by medical anthropologist Paul Farmer: by which mechanisms precisely do social forces ranging from poverty to racism to gender become embodied as individual experience?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer. To get started finding Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 392

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1869144341

Description: This book is about the slow violence of poverty. Lou-Marie Kruger’s clinical and research encounters in the Dwarsrivier Valley attempt to give an account of the complex realities and lived experiences of low-income mothers in post-apartheid South Africa. Focusing specifically on maternal life in a semi-rural community, the work can be regarded as a South African case study, showing how particular happenings, specific events, unique interactions, and larger societal processes become intertwined to result in complex narratives. Such intricate narratives do not only show how the past always impacts the present, but can also implicitly suggest how and why such stories are prone to be repeated. While the book can be seen as a study of a place and a community, the lives of individual people and how they are embedded in the larger matrix of culture, history, and the political economy are also present. The pertinent question here is one asked by medical anthropologist Paul Farmer: by which mechanisms precisely do social forces ranging from poverty to racism to gender become embodied as individual experience?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer. To get started finding Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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