Jeannette Marie Mageo (ed.)

Power and the Self

Herausgeber: Fessler, Daniel; Quinn, Naomi; Mageo, Jeannette Marie

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2002, analyses the ways in which power is experienced by individuals as agents and objects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521004602
• ISBN-10: 0521004608
• Artikelnr.: 24285909

Autorenporträt

Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. She has lived and done extensive fieldwork in the Pacific, and she writes about self, power, transvesticism, spirit possession, moral discourse and body symbolism.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Gananath Obeyesekere; 1. Introduction: Theorizing power and the
self Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft; Part I. Power Differentials in the
US: 2. The genocidal continuum: peace time crimes Nancy Scheper-Hughes; 3.
Intimate power, public selves: Bakhtin's space of authoring William S.
Lachicotte; Part II. Transitional Psychologies: 4. Playing with power:
morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture Ann Allison; 5.
Consciousness of the state and the experience of self: the runaway daughter
of a Turkish guest worker Katherine Ewing; Part III. Colonial Encounters:
Power/History/Self: 6. Spirit, self, and power: the making of colonial
experience in Papua New Guinea Douglas Dalton; 7. Self models and sexual
agency Jeannette Mageo; Part IV. Reading Power against the Grain: 8. Eager
subjects, reluctant powers: the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New
Guinea male cult Harriet Whitehead; 9. Feminist emotions Catherine Lutz.