Pinto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 15152 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pinto |
| APELLIDO | Pinto |
| FIRMA | PINTO |
| AFILIACIONES | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4455-696X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The farmer and the ditch digger
Reading Through Grief
We Tend to Think of It as Australian History, but It’s British History”
In June 2015, the BBC historical series Banished arrived on Australian television screens amid major controversy. Written by the celebrated British screenwriter Jimmy McGovern, Banished dramatised life in the British penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788. When the series first premiered in Britain, it developed a strong following among British viewers despite mixed reviews from critics. In Australia, however, local criticism of the series began bef…
Hysteria
Ways of mapping mental illness in the world involve stories about history, time and qualities of knowledge. This paper explores the history of hysteria as a South Asian story. With a South Asia-centred history of the contemporary critical concept of cultural translation, this paper observes not only hysteria’s long South Asian history, but the colonial emergence of a defining narrative—the equation of hysteria to spirit possession, a naturalised …
Michela Tonti, Le nom de marque dans le discours au quotidien. Prisme lexiculturel et linguistique, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. laboratorio@francesisti, 2020, 207 p
Imperial Emotions
I never know what to expect when I start to read a history of the emotions. This is because there are so many ways to approach and write these histories, and their authors can – and do – go in a ra
Madness
From the late 1990s, a wave of writing in anthropology took up the idiom of madness to orient a critical approach. However, anthropology's use of madness as critique reflects a longer conversation between psychiatry and anthropology. As madness is used to point to and connect other things-afflictions, therapeutics, medicine, politics, colonialism, religion, and, especially, trauma as a social condition-it is noteworthy not only for its breadth, b…
Kinship, Affliction, Proximity, and Unfinished Healing in India
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Water Source Preferences and Water Quality Perceptions among Women in the Eastern Region, Ghana
Residents in the Eastern Region, Ghana with access to improved water sources (e.g., boreholes and covered wells) often choose to collect water from unimproved sources (e.g., rivers and uncovered wells). To assess why, we conducted two field studies to coincide with Ghana's rainy and dry seasons. During the rainy season, we conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews among a convenience sample of 26 women in four rural communities (including one…
Converging through difference
The Effect of Western Formal Education on the Ghanaian Educational System and Cultural Identity
Forever In Our Hearts
This article charts the emergence of the births, deaths and marriages column in the colonial Australian press. Using Australia’s oldest continuing newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald as a case study, this article examines the evolution of the notices over a 25-year period from the newspaper’s first publication (as the Sydney Herald) in 1831. We argue that the births, deaths and marriages notices in the Herald were part of early attempts by coloni…
Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Memory, place and Aboriginal-settler history: understanding Australians' consciousness of the Colonial past
Finding and Conjuring
In considering the persistent ways that haunting, as a metaphoric operation, informs our attentions to history and human experience, this article introduces this special issue by asking what qualities of knowing, reading, and understanding, and what particular histories, might be rolled into "ghostliness." Infrastructural hauntings at once jog the fixity of certain metaphors and help us world our analytics. With the aid of a recent feature film (…
Researching romantic love
How might we usefully conceptualize romantic love in historical work? Historians of the emotions typically move across and between disciplines in the humanities along with the social, behavioral and cognitive sciences in an effort to define and explain the emotions. Using romantic love as a case study, this article tests the effects of this interdisciplinary movement. It undertakes an experiment in interdisciplinary reading by closely examining k…
The History of Emotions in Australia
In the last two decades, emotions have increasingly featured in Australian historical scholarship. This article reviews the history of emotions in Australia by examining the various ways in which historians have engaged with and mobilised the emotions in their research. It argues that, for most Australian historians, the emotions are a tool of investigation in projects with historical interests that are largely directed elsewhere. Historical scho…
Singularity and Uncertainty
On the cusp of India’s Independence, a young woman in Punjab met with a psychiatrist for a conceptual experiment – the development of a ‘more objective’ and ‘Oriental’ theory of dream analysis. Known to us only as Mrs A., not only did she offer a ‘daydream’ to analyst Dev Satya Nand, she presented an intimate account of mid-twentieth-century upper-class Indian marriage, sexuality and womanhood. In her portrayal of the stakes of kinship, she posed…
Pharmocracy
Reviewed by: Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine by Kaushik Sunder Rajan Sarah Pinto Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 344 pp. Global scandals involving human biology, such as transnational drug testing, organ trade, and surrogacy often make the clinic ground zero of transgression. Formal or informal, legitimate or underground…
Out of Place (Gwalia)
Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transition. Edited by Philip Goldswain, Nicole Sully, and William M. Taylor (Perth: UWA Publishing, 2014), pp.xi + 311. AU$39.99 (pb)
The Tools of Your Chants and Spells
A longstanding trope in Indian psychiatry, and in popular representations of it, involves the efficacy of incantations and exorcism in healing afflictions of the mind, notably hysteria. In many accounts, from nineteenth century medical journals to twenty-first century popular films, a medicine deemed at once 'Western' and universal is granted the ability to diagnose neurotic afflictions, but rendered incapable of curing them, while bodily techniq…
Daughters of Parvati
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha , the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, …
Drugs and the Single Woman
The Limits of Diagnosis
In India, psychiatrists are often called on to offer diagnostic evaluations in cases of contested marriage, providing a form of adjudication at the crux of medicine, law, and kin-life. In this article I consider one such case, asking how its complexities expose fissures in the structures of knowledge that attend to damaged sexual subjects. Suggesting that a "hermeneutics of discord"-forming an account out of several contradictory stories-offers i…
Rational Love, Relational Medicine
Screening Sex
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill…
Development without Institutions
In north India, unregulated medical practice is considered by many to be a sign of the failure of institutional rationality and "backward" quality of rural life. However, the work of self-made doctors can also be seen to engage key elements of institutional rationality as it is interwoven with the structure and ethos of development. This article explores what these practitioners and their work suggest about the imagination of institutions in rura…
The Limits of Diagnosis
In India, psychiatrists are often called on to offer diagnostic evaluations in cases of contested marriage, providing a form of adjudication at the crux of medicine, law, and kin-life. In this article I consider one such case, asking how its complexities expose fissures in the structures of knowledge that attend to damaged sexual subjects. Suggesting that a "hermeneutics of discord"-forming an account out of several contradictory stories-offers i…
Crises of Commitment
This article addresses the challenges inherent to framing an ethical language around the issue of patient "abandonment" in psychiatric hospitals. It describes the situations of divorced women in a north Indian private clinic to ask how a Foucaultian understanding of "the family" as a site of discipline, and the ethical languages that emerge from this critique, cannot account for the complexities of kin life in these women's lives and the multiple…
Finding and Conjuring
In considering the persistent ways that haunting, as a metaphoric operation, informs our attentions to history and human experience, this article introduces this special issue by asking what qualities of knowing, reading, and understanding, and what particular histories, might be rolled into "ghostliness." Infrastructural hauntings at once jog the fixity of certain metaphors and help us world our analytics. With the aid of a recent feature film (…
Researching romantic love
How might we usefully conceptualize romantic love in historical work? Historians of the emotions typically move across and between disciplines in the humanities along with the social, behavioral and cognitive sciences in an effort to define and explain the emotions. Using romantic love as a case study, this article tests the effects of this interdisciplinary movement. It undertakes an experiment in interdisciplinary reading by closely examining k…
The Tools of Your Chants and Spells
A longstanding trope in Indian psychiatry, and in popular representations of it, involves the efficacy of incantations and exorcism in healing afflictions of the mind, notably hysteria. In many accounts, from nineteenth century medical journals to twenty-first century popular films, a medicine deemed at once 'Western' and universal is granted the ability to diagnose neurotic afflictions, but rendered incapable of curing them, while bodily techniq…
Madness
From the late 1990s, a wave of writing in anthropology took up the idiom of madness to orient a critical approach. However, anthropology's use of madness as critique reflects a longer conversation between psychiatry and anthropology. As madness is used to point to and connect other things-afflictions, therapeutics, medicine, politics, colonialism, religion, and, especially, trauma as a social condition-it is noteworthy not only for its breadth, b…
Imperial Emotions
I never know what to expect when I start to read a history of the emotions. This is because there are so many ways to approach and write these histories, and their authors can – and do – go in a ra
Emotional histories and historical emotions
n\t\t\t\t\tFor anyone interested in the past and its representation, historical novels are difficult to ignore. Unlike a multitude of other alternative representations of the past that have been brought into historical view, however, historical novels have been largely excluded from scholarly historical analysis. Although historians might find historical novels fascinating, might read them voraciously, might teach courses on or around them, and m…
The History of Emotions in Australia
In the last two decades, emotions have increasingly featured in Australian historical scholarship. This article reviews the history of emotions in Australia by examining the various ways in which historians have engaged with and mobilised the emotions in their research. It argues that, for most Australian historians, the emotions are a tool of investigation in projects with historical interests that are largely directed elsewhere. Historical scho…
Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Memory, place and Aboriginal-settler history: understanding Australians' consciousness of the Colonial past
These infants are future Australians’
The formal practice of intercountry adoption has its origins in the immediate postwar years but has increased in scale over the past two decades. Although rates of intercountry adoption remain low in Australia, in recent years proponents have called for the transnational adoption of children to be made more readily accessible by Australian couples. As researchers working on the history of adoption in Australia, we are interested in the ways in wh…
I Ain't Queer”
Ang Lee's big gay tragic historical love story, Brokeback Mountain, was released internationally in late 2005 and early 2006. Lee's film told the story of two cowboys who fell in love while shepherding on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. Although the film narrated a demonstrably American story, appeals to a socio-historical connection were widespread in Australia. Indeed, Brokeback Mountain's cinematic release in this country coincided with…
Globalizing Untouchability
Research Article| March 01 2006 Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and The Politics of Depressing Speech Sarah Pinto Sarah Pinto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 81–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah Pinto; Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and The Politics of Depressing Speech. Social Text 1 March …
Development without Institutions
In north India, unregulated medical practice is considered by many to be a sign of the failure of institutional rationality and "backward" quality of rural life. However, the work of self-made doctors can also be seen to engage key elements of institutional rationality as it is interwoven with the structure and ethos of development. This article explores what these practitioners and their work suggest about the imagination of institutions in rura…
Globalizing Untouchability
Research Article| March 01 2006 Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and The Politics of Depressing Speech Sarah Pinto Sarah Pinto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 81–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah Pinto; Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and The Politics of Depressing Speech. Social Text 1 March …
I Ain't Queer”
Ang Lee's big gay tragic historical love story, Brokeback Mountain, was released internationally in late 2005 and early 2006. Lee's film told the story of two cowboys who fell in love while shepherding on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. Although the film narrated a demonstrably American story, appeals to a socio-historical connection were widespread in Australia. Indeed, Brokeback Mountain's cinematic release in this country coincided with…
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in everyday modes of experience, the social and psychological dimensions of individual lives, the psychological qualities of social life, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection found in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is divided into three parts. The first explores the tension between our understandings of the dual mea…
Consuming Grief
This chapter examines ways of addressing and coping with infant death in the context of rural poverty and transnational intervention in postcolonial India, discussing the stories told repeatedly by grieving mothers and relating these to the universalized phrases associated with the pedagogies of health intervention. It shows the ways postcolonial structures and meanings articulate with and are refused by domestic and neighborly relations, in whic…
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill…
Beyond the body proper
Crises of Commitment
This article addresses the challenges inherent to framing an ethical language around the issue of patient "abandonment" in psychiatric hospitals. It describes the situations of divorced women in a north Indian private clinic to ask how a Foucaultian understanding of "the family" as a site of discipline, and the ethical languages that emerge from this critique, cannot account for the complexities of kin life in these women's lives and the multiple…
These infants are future Australians’
The formal practice of intercountry adoption has its origins in the immediate postwar years but has increased in scale over the past two decades. Although rates of intercountry adoption remain low in Australia, in recent years proponents have called for the transnational adoption of children to be made more readily accessible by Australian couples. As researchers working on the history of adoption in Australia, we are interested in the ways in wh…
Emotional histories and historical emotions
n\t\t\t\t\tFor anyone interested in the past and its representation, historical novels are difficult to ignore. Unlike a multitude of other alternative representations of the past that have been brought into historical view, however, historical novels have been largely excluded from scholarly historical analysis. Although historians might find historical novels fascinating, might read them voraciously, might teach courses on or around them, and m…
Rational Love, Relational Medicine
Screening Sex
Historical Justice in International Perspective
The notion that something can — and must — be done to address injustices of the past has gained signifieant political currency around the world in recent decades. As demands for apologies, reparation, restitution, and restorative justice have grown louder, the attempt to make amends has emerged as an important national marker in what Elazar Barkan has called a new era of intemational morality. For historians, this seemingly new way of engaging wi…
The Limits of Diagnosis
In India, psychiatrists are often called on to offer diagnostic evaluations in cases of contested marriage, providing a form of adjudication at the crux of medicine, law, and kin-life. In this article I consider one such case, asking how its complexities expose fissures in the structures of knowledge that attend to damaged sexual subjects. Suggesting that a "hermeneutics of discord"-forming an account out of several contradictory stories-offers i…
Daughters of Parvati
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha , the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, …
Drugs and the Single Woman
Out of Place (Gwalia)
Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transition. Edited by Philip Goldswain, Nicole Sully, and William M. Taylor (Perth: UWA Publishing, 2014), pp.xi + 311. AU$39.99 (pb)
The Tools of Your Chants and Spells
A longstanding trope in Indian psychiatry, and in popular representations of it, involves the efficacy of incantations and exorcism in healing afflictions of the mind, notably hysteria. In many accounts, from nineteenth century medical journals to twenty-first century popular films, a medicine deemed at once 'Western' and universal is granted the ability to diagnose neurotic afflictions, but rendered incapable of curing them, while bodily techniq…
Researching romantic love
How might we usefully conceptualize romantic love in historical work? Historians of the emotions typically move across and between disciplines in the humanities along with the social, behavioral and cognitive sciences in an effort to define and explain the emotions. Using romantic love as a case study, this article tests the effects of this interdisciplinary movement. It undertakes an experiment in interdisciplinary reading by closely examining k…
The History of Emotions in Australia
In the last two decades, emotions have increasingly featured in Australian historical scholarship. This article reviews the history of emotions in Australia by examining the various ways in which historians have engaged with and mobilised the emotions in their research. It argues that, for most Australian historians, the emotions are a tool of investigation in projects with historical interests that are largely directed elsewhere. Historical scho…
Singularity and Uncertainty
On the cusp of India’s Independence, a young woman in Punjab met with a psychiatrist for a conceptual experiment – the development of a ‘more objective’ and ‘Oriental’ theory of dream analysis. Known to us only as Mrs A., not only did she offer a ‘daydream’ to analyst Dev Satya Nand, she presented an intimate account of mid-twentieth-century upper-class Indian marriage, sexuality and womanhood. In her portrayal of the stakes of kinship, she posed…
Pharmocracy
Reviewed by: Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine by Kaushik Sunder Rajan Sarah Pinto Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 344 pp. Global scandals involving human biology, such as transnational drug testing, organ trade, and surrogacy often make the clinic ground zero of transgression. Formal or informal, legitimate or underground…
Forever In Our Hearts
This article charts the emergence of the births, deaths and marriages column in the colonial Australian press. Using Australia’s oldest continuing newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald as a case study, this article examines the evolution of the notices over a 25-year period from the newspaper’s first publication (as the Sydney Herald) in 1831. We argue that the births, deaths and marriages notices in the Herald were part of early attempts by coloni…
Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Memory, place and Aboriginal-settler history: understanding Australians' consciousness of the Colonial past
Finding and Conjuring
In considering the persistent ways that haunting, as a metaphoric operation, informs our attentions to history and human experience, this article introduces this special issue by asking what qualities of knowing, reading, and understanding, and what particular histories, might be rolled into "ghostliness." Infrastructural hauntings at once jog the fixity of certain metaphors and help us world our analytics. With the aid of a recent feature film (…
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