Suicide and Agency (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Redaktion: Broz, Ludek; Münster, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia, India, Palestine and Mexico) and setting (self-run leprosy colony, suicide bomb attack, cash-crop farming, middle-class mothering).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317048459
• Artikelnr.: 44873090

Autorenporträt

Ludek Broz is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Daniel Mÿnster is a junior research group leader in the cluster of excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction: The anthropology of suicide: ethnography and the tension of agency
Daniel Münster and Ludek Broz. Part II Suicide
Personhood and Relationality: Personhood
agency and suicide in a neo-liberalizing South India
James Staples; The lonely un-dead and returning suicide in northwest Greenland
Janne Flora; Between demons and disease: suicide and agency in Yucatan
Mexico
Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster; Four funerals and a wedding: suicide
sacrifice
and (non-)human agency in a Siberian village
Ludek Broz. Part III Self-Destruction and Power: Bodies
Resistance and Crises: Farmers' suicide and the moral economy of agriculture: victimhood
voice
and agro-environmental responsibility in South India
Daniel Münster; Dying to live in Palestine: steadfastness
pollution and embodied space
Deen Sharp and Natalia Linos; Accumulating death: women's moral agency and domestic economies of care in South India
Jocelyn Chua; Learning suicide and the limits of agency: children's 'suicide play' in Sri Lanka
Tom Widger; Suicide
agency and the limits of power
Katrina Jaworski. Part IV Afterword: Afterword: taking relationality to extremes
Marilyn Strathern