| Strange distance: towards an anthropology of interior dialogue. | |
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PMID: 21495492 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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The capacity for a complex inner life--encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and unarticulated moods--is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand, and manage their condition. Nevertheless, anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people's public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventional social-scientific methods are often too static to understand the fluidity of perception among people living with illness or bodily instability, I argue we need to develop new, practical approaches to knowing. By placing the problem of interiority directly into the field and turning it into an ethnographic, practice-based question to be addressed through fieldwork in collaboration with informants, this article works alongside women living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda with the aim of capturing the unvoiced but sometimes radical changes in being, belief, and perception that accompany terminal illness. |
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Andrew Irving |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Medical anthropology quarterly Volume: 25 ISSN: 0745-5194 ISO Abbreviation: Med Anthropol Q Publication Date: 2011 Mar |
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Created Date: 2011-04-18 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8405037 Medline TA: Med Anthropol Q Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 22-44 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Anthropology, University of Manchester. |
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Med Anthropol Q. 2011 Mar;25(1):45-6
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