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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...

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Other Authors: Desjarlais, Robert R. (writer of afterword.), Stevenson, Lisa (writer of foreword.), Speyer, Maria (Illustrator), Gron, Lone (Editor), Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations (black and white) ;
ISBN:9780823299669