| Power and the Self Contributor(s): Mageo, Jeannette Marie (Editor), Quinn, Naomi (Editor), Fessler, Daniel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521808391 ISBN-13: 9780521808392 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $89.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 155.8 |
| LCCN: 2001035587 |
| Series: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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". |
Contributor Bio(s): Mageo, Jeannette Marie: - 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. |