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Power and the Self (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 13) - Hardcover

 
9780521808392: Power and the Self (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 13)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521808391 ISBN 13: 9780521808392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This edited volume deals with an important but neglected topic--the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, as agents as well as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution that relates theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to "everyday forms of violence".

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521808391
ISBN 13 
9780521808392
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
234
Editor
Mageo Jeannette Marie