Frame+2

=Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience=

Development and trajectories
(1) tradition of American anthropology and semiotic and symbolic analysis (2) cultural phenomenology (3) narrative study
 * "Interpretive medical anthropology"** : influenced by


 * Key concepts**

**Semiology**
symbolic realities meaning of symptoms meaning of efficacy semantics of medical discourse semantic networks

**Phenomenology**
Illness experience embodiment
 * How medical anthropologists use phenomenology as analytic stance in they studies?
 * What is "cultural phenomenology"?

**Narrative**
Emplotment Clinical narrative
 * What is the distinction between narrative and story?
 * How adequate narrative for understanding of experience?
 * Connection between narrative and phenomenology
 * Several ways of thinking about narrative:
 * Structuralist accounts: French tradition of classifying the structure of plots (studies of folklore)
 * Performance theory: when socio-linguists as opposed to structural-linguists came to the fore: who is the storyteller and what are the conventions of storytelling? How do people tell stories in order to influence others, what are they engaging in? What are different audience structures? See the work of Richard Bauman
 * Phenomenology of reading: based on "reader-response" theory expounded by Wolfgang Iser and others; this entailed attending to a text or a story or a narrative from the point of view of the person who is hearing/reading, you get a completely different understanding than the structure of narrative if you assume the position of the audience or the teller; the notion of 'emplotment' is what the listener does constantly

Key figures
Arthur Kleinman Thomas J. Csordas Ellen Corin Cheryl Mattingly Michael Jackson Janis Hunter Jenkins Robert Desjarlais