Regaining meaning: : narratives on the experience of suicide by a loved one

ISBN-13: 9783659453403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 72 str.

Jose Felipe Salgado Alvarez

Opis

This research comes from these questions, trying to answer them standing on anthropology as my academic interest, but also because as an anthropologist it is the only way I could do it. Following the work developed by Gabriel Gatti (2008), this work is enunciated from the "I" as it has come to be clear in the last paragraphs, in what the author calls a work from the "guts". These few paragraphs are not a confession, nor an autobiographical exercise, but rather as has been said about Gatti's work "if at first the author exposes himself, by letting know of his situation or part of his family life, it is to remind the readers that his own narrative (in this case a sociological narrative) its not an alien to the matter of "the narratives" that he is going to actually take care of" (Alvaro, 2008). Therefore, my anthropological narrative will be present through these words, as well as my narrative as survivor of suicide, presenting and re-presenting my informants' experiences and narratives.

O autorze

Anthropologist with studies in philosophy in Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Master in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Great Interest for the suicide subject, specially related with the experiences of the people close to the suicidal person.