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Imagistic Care : Growing Old in a Precarious World /
"Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and ot...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Thinking from elsewhere.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The contributors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823299645 9780823299638 9780823299669 082329966X 0823299643 0823299635 0823299651 9780823299652 |