Undisciplined : science, ethnography, and personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 /

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In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farooq, Nihad M., 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Ethnology > America > History > 19th century.
Ethnology > America > History > 20th century.
Philosophical anthropology > History > 19th century.
Philosophical anthropology > History > 20th century.
Persons > Philosophy.
Ethnologie > Amérique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ethnologie > Amérique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anthropologie philosophique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Anthropologie philosophique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Personnes > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology
Philosophical anthropology
America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence : Object Lessons in the Land of Fire
  • Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight : Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia
  • Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance : Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century
  • Performing Diaspora : The Science of Speaking for Haiti
  • Conclusion : "I Danced, I Don't Know How" : Media, Race, and the Posthuman.

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