Vieda Skultans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603723 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vieda Skultans |
| PRENOMES | Vieda |
| SOBRENOME | Skultans |
| ASSINATURA | SKULTANS V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
Response to Reviews of Empathy and Healing
Abstracts and Keywords
The Appropriation of Suffering
This study brings together socio-theoretical and ethnographic approaches to psychiatry, demonstrating the role of the clinic as a major consolidator of ideologies as well as the site where personal miseries are registered as markers of social failure. It focuses on innovation in psychiatric taxonomies, changes in the figurative language of the emotions, changes in conceptualizations of the self and how all of these relate to changing socio-econom…
Psychiatry through the Ethnographic Lens
The title of this article is deliberately chosen and reflects its agenda: to outline the contribution of ethnography to psychiatry. Ethnography is the study of culture through intensive participation, observation and listening. The postmodernists remind us that it is also the writing of culture (literally translated from the Greek). And in focusing on the writing of ethnographic texts they have alerted us to the problematic nature of transferring…
Varieties of deception and distrust
This article considers the ethical guidelines concerning autonomy, negotiated consent and transparency in relation to an ethnography of psychiatry. It suggests that the complexities and unequal power distribution of the psychiatric consultation make these guidelines difficult to apply. I argue for the importance of ethnography rather than the instantiation of abstract principles to the development of an ethical perspective
Authority, Dialogue and Polyphony in Psychiatric Consultations
This article explores the impact of economic liberalization on psychiatric theory and practice in Latvia. Through a close reading of four psychiatric consultations it examines the way in which contradictions between a market economy, its attendant philosophy of unlimited individual opportunity and the implementation of these ideas in the lives of individuals are negotiated by psychiatrists and their patients. It examines the uses of psychological…
Culture and medical psychiatric narratives
From damaged nerves to masked depression
Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives
(2003). Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives. Anthropology & Medicine: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 155-165
Arguing with the KGB Archives. Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia
This paper is a sequel to my earlier work on life histories in post-Soviet Latvia. The opening of the KGB archives in Riga created the possibility of comparing archival information with recorded personal narratives. The files and the highly charged emotional responses that they evoked raise questions about the uses of language as it moves along a continuum from rigid formalisation to free poetic constructions. Excessive formalisation and institut…
Narrative illness and the body
Narratives of the Body and History
This paper focuses on the narrative of a Latvian countrywoman. In so doing it explores the unstable relationship between history, memory and the body. In particular, it looks at the way in which certain historical events have come to be annexed to the body and are used to explain the development of psychological and mental illness. This account describes state‐perpetrated violence, and connects individual ills to a shared history and collective s…
The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia
Reason and Necessity in the Specification of the Multiple Self
The expropriated harvest
Journal Article The expropriated harvest: narratives of deportation and collectivization in North-East Latvia Get access V Skultans V Skultans Department of Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1997, Pages 170–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.44.170 Published: 01 January 1997
Theorizing Latvian Lives
This article examines the nature of contemporary Latvian life stories. These accounts of the Soviet invasion and its long aftermath constitute a hybrid genre which unites personal and collective experience. They are intended by their authors to provide a literal representation ofthe past but in the process ofacquiring coherence they come to act as potent carriers of literary and cultural meanings, which confirm personal identity and national loya…
A historical disorder
Neurasthenia was the most common of all medical diagnoses in Latvia and, indeed, throughout the Soviet Union and the other successor states. There is, of course, a long tradition—which stems from the military psychiatry of the First World War—of diagnosing individuals as neurasthenic and thereby translating political violence into psychological weakness. Not surprisingly, therefore, my focus on neurasthenia unwittingly unravelled painful and accu…
Looking for a subject
Courses in medical anthropology in Britain
Neurasthenia and Political Resistance in Latvia
En Lettonie, les medecins s'efforcent de ne pas diagnostiquer la neurasthenie qui traduirait trop les problemes sociaux et politiques. Ils traduisent alors les symptomes par des maladies « physiques » ou psychosomatiques (dystonie, labilite). Si les relations medecins-patients sont generalement chaleureuses, la population refuse parfois les diagnostics : la tentative politique de detourner la critique sociale a echoue
Women and affliction in Maharashtra
Anthropology and Psychiatry
Caring by the Hour
A Continuing Trial of Treatment
From damaged nerves to masked depression
The Management of Mental Illness Among Maharashtrian Families
Narratives of the Body and History
This paper focuses on the narrative of a Latvian countrywoman. In so doing it explores the unstable relationship between history, memory and the body. In particular, it looks at the way in which certain historical events have come to be annexed to the body and are used to explain the development of psychological and mental illness. This account describes state‐perpetrated violence, and connects individual ills to a shared history and collective s…
Theorizing Latvian Lives
This article examines the nature of contemporary Latvian life stories. These accounts of the Soviet invasion and its long aftermath constitute a hybrid genre which unites personal and collective experience. They are intended by their authors to provide a literal representation ofthe past but in the process ofacquiring coherence they come to act as potent carriers of literary and cultural meanings, which confirm personal identity and national loya…
Reason and Necessity in the Specification of the Multiple Self
The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause
Arguing with the KGB Archives. Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia
This paper is a sequel to my earlier work on life histories in post-Soviet Latvia. The opening of the KGB archives in Riga created the possibility of comparing archival information with recorded personal narratives. The files and the highly charged emotional responses that they evoked raise questions about the uses of language as it moves along a continuum from rigid formalisation to free poetic constructions. Excessive formalisation and institut…
Madness and Morals
Narrative illness and the body
Anthropology and Psychiatry
The Appropriation of Suffering
This study brings together socio-theoretical and ethnographic approaches to psychiatry, demonstrating the role of the clinic as a major consolidator of ideologies as well as the site where personal miseries are registered as markers of social failure. It focuses on innovation in psychiatric taxonomies, changes in the figurative language of the emotions, changes in conceptualizations of the self and how all of these relate to changing socio-econom…
A historical disorder
Neurasthenia was the most common of all medical diagnoses in Latvia and, indeed, throughout the Soviet Union and the other successor states. There is, of course, a long tradition—which stems from the military psychiatry of the First World War—of diagnosing individuals as neurasthenic and thereby translating political violence into psychological weakness. Not surprisingly, therefore, my focus on neurasthenia unwittingly unravelled painful and accu…
Trance and the Management of Mental Illness
Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives
(2003). Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives. Anthropology & Medicine: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 155-165
Neurasthenia and Political Resistance in Latvia
En Lettonie, les medecins s'efforcent de ne pas diagnostiquer la neurasthenie qui traduirait trop les problemes sociaux et politiques. Ils traduisent alors les symptomes par des maladies « physiques » ou psychosomatiques (dystonie, labilite). Si les relations medecins-patients sont generalement chaleureuses, la population refuse parfois les diagnostics : la tentative politique de detourner la critique sociale a echoue
The expropriated harvest
Journal Article The expropriated harvest: narratives of deportation and collectivization in North-East Latvia Get access V Skultans V Skultans Department of Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1997, Pages 170–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.44.170 Published: 01 January 1997
Looking for a subject
Varieties of deception and distrust
This article considers the ethical guidelines concerning autonomy, negotiated consent and transparency in relation to an ethnography of psychiatry. It suggests that the complexities and unequal power distribution of the psychiatric consultation make these guidelines difficult to apply. I argue for the importance of ethnography rather than the instantiation of abstract principles to the development of an ethical perspective
The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia
Caring by the Hour
The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause
Madness and Morals
Madness and Morals
Psycho Politics/Critical Psychiatry
The World We Have Lost - Further Explained
On Mental Imagery and Healing
Trance and the Management of Mental Illness
The Management of Mental Illness Among Maharashtrian Families
Caring by the Hour
A Continuing Trial of Treatment
Women and affliction in Maharashtra
Anthropology and Psychiatry
Neurasthenia and Political Resistance in Latvia
En Lettonie, les medecins s'efforcent de ne pas diagnostiquer la neurasthenie qui traduirait trop les problemes sociaux et politiques. Ils traduisent alors les symptomes par des maladies « physiques » ou psychosomatiques (dystonie, labilite). Si les relations medecins-patients sont generalement chaleureuses, la population refuse parfois les diagnostics : la tentative politique de detourner la critique sociale a echoue
Looking for a subject
Courses in medical anthropology in Britain
The expropriated harvest
Journal Article The expropriated harvest: narratives of deportation and collectivization in North-East Latvia Get access V Skultans V Skultans Department of Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1997, Pages 170–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.44.170 Published: 01 January 1997
Theorizing Latvian Lives
This article examines the nature of contemporary Latvian life stories. These accounts of the Soviet invasion and its long aftermath constitute a hybrid genre which unites personal and collective experience. They are intended by their authors to provide a literal representation ofthe past but in the process ofacquiring coherence they come to act as potent carriers of literary and cultural meanings, which confirm personal identity and national loya…
A historical disorder
Neurasthenia was the most common of all medical diagnoses in Latvia and, indeed, throughout the Soviet Union and the other successor states. There is, of course, a long tradition—which stems from the military psychiatry of the First World War—of diagnosing individuals as neurasthenic and thereby translating political violence into psychological weakness. Not surprisingly, therefore, my focus on neurasthenia unwittingly unravelled painful and accu…
Reason and Necessity in the Specification of the Multiple Self
Narratives of the Body and History
This paper focuses on the narrative of a Latvian countrywoman. In so doing it explores the unstable relationship between history, memory and the body. In particular, it looks at the way in which certain historical events have come to be annexed to the body and are used to explain the development of psychological and mental illness. This account describes state‐perpetrated violence, and connects individual ills to a shared history and collective s…
The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia
Narrative illness and the body
Arguing with the KGB Archives. Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia
This paper is a sequel to my earlier work on life histories in post-Soviet Latvia. The opening of the KGB archives in Riga created the possibility of comparing archival information with recorded personal narratives. The files and the highly charged emotional responses that they evoked raise questions about the uses of language as it moves along a continuum from rigid formalisation to free poetic constructions. Excessive formalisation and institut…
From damaged nerves to masked depression
Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives
(2003). Culture and dialogue in medical psychiatric narratives. Anthropology & Medicine: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 155-165
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