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Daughters of Parvati : Women and Madness in Contemporary India / Sarah Pinto.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary EthnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 2 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812245837
  • 9780812209280
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2/20954 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.I4 .P56 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliterations -- Introduction: Love and Affliction -- 1. Rehabilitating Ammi -- 2. On Dissolution -- 3. Moksha and Mishappenings -- 4. On Dissociation -- 5. Making a Case -- 6. Ethics of Dissolution -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: 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, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliterations -- Introduction: Love and Affliction -- 1. Rehabilitating Ammi -- 2. On Dissolution -- 3. Moksha and Mishappenings -- 4. On Dissociation -- 5. Making a Case -- 6. Ethics of Dissolution -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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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, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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