The art of life and death : radical aesthetics and ethnographic practice /

The art of life and death" explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irving, Andrew, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Hau Books, [2017]
Colección:Malinowski monographs series.
Temas:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Death.
Terminally ill > Attitudes.
Near-death experiences.
Death
Mort.
Malades en phase terminale > Attitudes.
Expériences de mort imminente.
deaths.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Near-death experiences
Terminally ill > Attitudes
Anthropologische Medizin
Biografische Methode
Emotionales Verhalten
Patient
HIV-Infektion
Aids
Pflegeheim
Lebensbedingungen
Sterblichkeit
Zeitlichkeit
Hilflosigkeit
Hoffnungslosigkeit
Religiosität
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The art of life and death" explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an "experience-near" ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are central to the experience of illness and everyday life, this monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that affect us all of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise of continued life
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and indexes.
ISBN:9781912808045
1912808048

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