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Becoming : an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in Java /

'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' falls within the long-standing tradition of anthropological theorising regarding the person, and takes inspiration from the philosophical writings of G. Deleuze. It comprises a critical intervention in the sai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Retsikas, Konstantinos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Anthem Press, ©2012.
Colección:Anthem Southeast Asian studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLEGOMENON; Subjects as motion; Becoming; Chapter 1 THE BECOMING OF PLACE: MOVING, CLEARING, INHABITING; The unity of the beginning; The diversity of poverty; The civility of emplacement; Becoming-place; Chapter 2 THE PERCEPTION OF DIFFERENCE: EMBODYING, REVERSING, ENCOMPASSING; Kinds of bodies; The flesh of the social; Origins, originals and ruptures; The corporeal and the phenomenal; Sensible distinctions; Reversibility and the diaphoron person.
  • Living hierarchyThe fabric; Chapter 3 THE BLOOD OF AFFINITY: MARRYING, PROCREATING, HOUSING; Disjunctive synthesis; The House; Incestuous affines; Becoming-siblings; The 'nature' of siblingship; Moving parts; A manifold of manifestations; Chapter 4 MATTERS OF SCALE: FEEDING, PRAYING, SHARING; A topography of relations; Vitality for the living; Vitality for the dead; Sound and sentiment; Ex-changing scales; Digesting the multitude; The kampong; Chapter 5 A PULSATING UNIVERSE: ANNIHILATING, ENHANCING, MAGNIFYING; Intimate contractions; The enlightenment of the enchanted; Ambiguous animals.
  • Sets of fourReciprocal motions; Chapter 6 THE MARITAL AND THE MARTIAL: GENDERING, KILLING, OSCILLATING; Cross-regional perspectives; Agency and affect; Masculine and feminine bodies; Androgyny; 'Chronicle of a death foretold'; Becoming-gendered; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.