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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Irving, Andrew, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : Hau Books, [2017]
Series:Malinowski monographs series.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Beginnings
  • The limits of the world; Chapter two
  • Detours and puzzles in the land of the living; Chapter three
  • To live that life; chapter four
  • Rethinking anthropology from a pragmaticpoint of view; Chapter five
  • A disintegration of the senses; Chapter six
  • The eternal return; Endings
  • You only live twice; References; Index

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