Papers by Sergey Startsev
Inter, 2019
The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitude to traditional m... more The article analyzes the biographical case of cancer with problematized attitude to traditional medicine. The author examines the biographical choices of the informant and the problem of not following the medicalist treatment strategy. Optics using analytic methods and social theory, the author seeks to show that living biographer’s disease and agree with the diagnosis of a life inextricably linked with the social relations within which these terms aventureuse, namely in the framework of relations “doctor-patient”. The analysis of this social dyad using the methods of anthropology and narratology brings us closer to the understanding of disease as a phenomenon mediated by the cultural codes of society, the dominant model of which is the biomedical paradigm of studying the “diseased body”.
Zhurnal Sotsiologii i Sotsialnoy Antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology)
Inter, 2021
The discussion focuses on the recently opened "Crystal Wailing Wall" at the Babi Yar me... more The discussion focuses on the recently opened "Crystal Wailing Wall" at the Babi Yar memorial complex, an art object created by the famous artist Marina Abramovich. The authors from different analytical positions and from different fields demonstrate the rich interpretative resource of the Wall. Describing various aspects of the composition, the participants of the discussion draw attention to the difficulties associated with both the discussion of the Holocaust and forms of its commemorative representation.
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The article discusses the methodological features and heuristic boundaries of the method of imple... more The article discusses the methodological features and heuristic boundaries of the method of implementing a qualitative research strategy in sociology — body mapping. In addition to describing the advantages of this method in health and disease research, as well as other areas related to the social cognition of physicality, a brief overview of the methodological steps that must be followed when using body mapping is provided. The stages of the introduction of this method into sociological disciplines from art therapy practices are described, in which body mapping has demonstrated itself as a non-standard way of obtaining extralinguistic information.
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Papers by Sergey Startsev