THE STATE CONSTRUCTION OF AFFECT - POLITICAL ETHOS AND MENTAL-HEALTH AMONG SALVADORAN REFUGEES
THE STATE CONSTRUCTION OF AFFECT - POLITICAL ETHOS AND MENTAL-HEALTH AMONG SALVADORAN REFUGEES
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00119042
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发表时间：
1991-06-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
JENKINS, JH
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作者：
JENKINS, JH
本文试图扩展当前人类学关于情感的理论。尽管人类学家已经令人信服地确立了情感的特定文化地位，但对情感的“国家”（包括民族国家的社会政治机构）结构的认识也一直很缓慢。本文旨在通过研究国家在构建非政治性精神气质中的作用，居住在这种精神气质中的人的个人情绪以及难民的心理健康后果之间的关系，来扩展新兴的关于情绪的学术话语。这一分析旨在作为情感状态建构分析与情感现象学分析之间的桥梁。为了说明这一点，我研究了国家建设的影响和它的痕迹在叙述和临床介绍萨尔瓦多难民在北美。一组精神科门诊病人的恐惧和焦虑的显着性是由身体的经验，疾病的知识，以及在长期的政治暴力和贫困的背景下情绪的民族心理学框架。恐怖和酷刑，痛苦和疾病之间的区别被认为是描述难民经历的关键。未来的研究方向的“国家建设的影响”的建议。
This essay seeks to extend current anthropological theorizing on emotion. Although anthropologists have convincingly established the specifically cultural status of emotion, recognition also of “state” (including sociopolitical institutions of nation-states) constructions of affect has been slow in coming. The present essay seeks to expand the emerging scholarly discourse on the emotions by examining the nexus among the role of the state in constructing apolitical ethos, the personal emotions of those who dwell in that ethos, and the mental health consequences for refugees. This analysis is intended as a bridge between analyses of the state construction of affect, on the one hand, and the phenomenology of those affects, on the other. To illustrate, I examine the state construction of affect and its traces in the narrative and clinical presentations of Salvadoran refugees in North America. The saliency of fear and anxiety among a group of psychiatric out-patients is framed by bodily experience, knowledge of illness, and the ethnopsychology of emotion within the context of chronic political violence and poverty. Distinctions between terror and torture, distress and disease are proposed as essential to an account of refugee experience. Future directions for the study of the “state construction of affect” are suggested.