'Beyond being': Emergent narratives of suffering in Vietnam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 589-605

  Gammeltoft, Tine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747068193     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00354.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Arendt, H. 1998 [1958]. The human condition. Chicago: University Press.
2. Bakhtin, M.M. 1981. The dialogic imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press.
3. Balaban, J. (ed.) 2000. Spring essence: The poetry of Ho Xuân Houng. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press.
4. Becker, G. 1997. Disrupted lives: How people create meaning in a chaotic world. Berkeley: University of California Press.
5. Behar, R. 1996. The vulnerable observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart. Boston: Beacon Press.
6. Bruner, J. 1987. Life as narrative. Social Research 54, 11-32.
7. Crossley, N. 1996. Intersubjectivity: The fabric of social becoming. London: Sage.
8. Das, V. 1994. Moral orientations to suffering: Legitimation, power and healing. In Health and social change in international perspective (eds) L.C. Chen, A. Kleinman & N.C. Ware, 139-67. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health.
9. Durand, M. & T.H. Nguyn 1985. An introduction to Vietnamese literature. New York: Columbia University Press.
10. Gammeltoft, T. 1999. Women's bodies, women's worries: Health and family planning in a Vietnamese rural community. Richmond, Sy.: Curzon Press.
11. Gammeltoft, T. 2002a. Between 'science' and 'superstition': Moral perceptions of induced abortion among young adults in Vietnam. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 26, 313-38.
12. Gammeltoft, T. 2002b. The irony of sexual agency: Premarital sex in urban northern Vietnam. In Gender, household, state: Doi moi in Vietnam (eds) D. Bélanger & J. Werner, 111-28. New York: Cornell University Press.
13. Gammeltoft, T. 2002c. Seeking trust and transcendence: Sexual risk-taking among Vietnamese youth. Social Science & Medicine 55, 483-96.
14. Gammeltoft, T. & K.F.O lwig (eds) 2005. To make my parents happy: anthropological perspectives on children in Vietnam. Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House.
15. Good, B. 1994. Medicine, rationality, and experience. Cambridge: University Press.
16. Healy, D. 2000. Literature in transition: An overview of Vietnamese writing of the renovation period. In The canon in Southeast Asian literatures (ed.) D. Smyth, 41-50. Richmond, Sy.: Curzon Press.
17. Henshaw, S.K., S. Singh & T. Haas 1999. The incidence of abortion worldwide. International Family Planning Perspectives 25 (Supplement), S30-8.
18. Husserl, E. 1991. Cartesian meditations (trans. D. Cairns). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
19. 1973. Introduction. In Nguyen Du: The Tale of Kieu (trans. and annotated by Huỳnh Sanh Thông), 3-29. New York: Vintage Books.
20. Iser, W. 1978. The act of reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
21. Jackson, M. 2002. The politics of storytelling: Violence, transgression and intersubjectivity. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
22. Jamieson, N. 1993. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press.
23. Kleinman, A. 1988. The illness narratives: Suffering, healing and the human condition. New York: Basic Books.
24. Kleinman, A. 1995. Writing at the margin: Discourse between anthropology and medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press.
25. Kleinman, A., V. Das & M. Lock 1997. Introduction. In Social suffering (ed.) A. Kleinman, V. Das & M. Lock, ix-xxvii. Berkeley: University of California Press.
26. Kleinman, A. & J. Kleinman 1991. Suffering and its professional transformation: Toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 15, 275-301.
27. Levinas, E. 1996 [1951]. Is ontology fundamental? In Emmanuel Levinas: basic philosophical writings (eds) A. T. Peperzak, S. Critchley & R. Bernasconi, 1-10. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
28. Levinas, E. 1998 [1974]. Otherwise than being or beyond essence. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
29. Lockhardt, G. 1992. Nguyen Huy Thiêp's highly diverting writing. Paper presented to the symposium on 'Problems of literature, culture, society, and history in Vietnam', Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, August.
30. Marr, D. 2000. Concepts of 'individual' and 'self' in twentieth-century Vietnam. Modern Asian Studies 34, 769-96.
31. Mattingly, C. 1994. The concept of therapeutic 'emplotment'. Social Science & Medicine 38, 811-22.
32. Mattingly, C. 1998. Healing dramas and clinical plots: The narrative structure of experience. Cambridge: University Press.
33. Mattingly, C. & L. Garro (eds) 1999. Narrative and the cultural construction of illness and healing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
34. Ochs, E. & L. Capps 2001. Living narrative: Creating lives in everyday storytelling. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
35. Pettus, A. 2003. Between sacrifice and desire: National identity and the governing of femininity in Vietnam. New York: Routledge.
36. Phinney, H. 2002. Asking for the essential child: Revolutionary transformations in reproductive space in northern Vietnam. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
37. Ricoeur, P. 1991. Life in quest of narrative. In On Paul Ricoeur: narrative and interpretation (ed.) D. Wood, 20-33. London: Routledge.
38. Ridler, K. 1996. If not the words: Shared practical activity and friendship in fieldwork. In Things as they are: New directions in phenomenological anthropology (ed.) M. Jackson, 238-58. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
39. Rosaldo, R. 1984. Grief and a headhunter's rage: On the cultural force of emotions. In Text, play and story: The construction and reconstruction of self and society (ed.) E.M. Bruner, 178-95. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.
40. Rosenwald, G.C. 1992. Conclusion: Reflections on narrative self-understanding. In Storied lives: The cultural politics of self-understanding (eds) G.C. Rosenwald & R.L. Ochberg, 265-89. New Haven: Yale University Press.
41. Rydstrø m, H. 2003. Embodying morality: Growing up in rural northern Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
42. Sartre, J.-P. 2001 [1940]. The psychology of the imagination. London: Routledge.
43. Solomon, R. C. 1995. The cross-cultural comparison of emotion. In Emotions in Asian thought: A dialogue in comparative philosophy (eds) J. Marks & R.T. Ames, 253-308. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
44. Taylor, P. 2004. Goddess on the rise: Pilgrimage and popular religion in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
45. Templer, R. 1999. Shadows and wind: A view of modern Vietnam. London: Little Brown.
46. 2005. Writers ask: 'have state grants stifled creativity?' Inter Press Service, 10 May.
47. UNDP 2004. Viet Nam's human development profile. Hanoi: UNDP Vietnam.
48. 2005. Nation's writers enjoy freedom, bear responsibility. Hanoi, 25 April.
49. Woodside, A. 1976. Community and revolution in modern Vietnam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
50. World Health Organization 1999. Abortion in Vietnam: An assessment of policy, programme and research issues. Geneva: World Health Organization.