Life Beside Itself
内容简介
"Life Beside Itself is a profound reflection on the psychic life of biopolitics and how the biopolitical state, committed to enhancing the life of the population, renders lifeless a people’s particular form of life. Lisa Stevenson writes with attentiveness to the care that binds the living and the dead in Inuit communities. That is itself a form of ethical living. Her writing is surely touched by grace. Her book illuminates the problem of suicide as the light of the moon illuminates a darkened sky. She helps us not to turn away from this suffering but to hold it. This book is truly a treasure."—Veena Das, author of Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty
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作者简介
Lisa Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and the editor of Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography (2006).
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目录
Prologue: Between Two Women
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Facts and Images
2. Cooperating
3. Anonymous Care
4. Life-of-the-Name
5. Why Two Clocks?
6. Song
Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam
Notes
References
List of Illustrations
Index
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读书文摘
在我的論述裡，我感興趣的不是弑嬰有多常發生，而是弑嬰跟命名習慣之間的關係。
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