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Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium
Veena Das
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Description for Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium
Hardback. Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. It is suitable for anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, and scholars of religion. Editor(s): Das, Veena; Han, Clara. Num Pages: 896 pages, 11 black and white, 29 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 263 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1724.
Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de force - a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the ... Read more
Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de force - a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
896
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520278417
SKU
V9780520278417
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About Veena Das
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty and Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, as well as coeditor of The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. Clara Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Life ... Read more
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