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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Weitere Verfasser: Mattingly, Cheryl 1951- (HerausgeberIn), Grøn, Lone (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham University Press 2022
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Thinking from elsewhere
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:2207
Beschreibung:xiv, 268 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9780823299638
9780823299645
0823299643

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