Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations /
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
CA :
University of California Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one h. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (478 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520939639 0520939638 9780520247925 0520247922 9780520247932 0520247930 9786612358449 6612358440 |