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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

By: Cathrine Degnen

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

By: Cathrine Degnen

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices. In discussing the life course, she investigates personhood as a concept at the beginning of life, throughout life as lived, at the edges of being, and ultimately at life’s end. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course moves beyond the human person in isolation to consider how personhood is fashioned with regard to place and how non-humans can also be recognised as persons. Through multiple ethnographic accounts, Degnen shows that personhood emerges as a relational and processual entity, brought into being via reciprocal fields of social relations.

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1137566426

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Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Years in the making

By: Cathrine Degnen

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Years in the making

By: Cathrine Degnen

Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of ‘old age’ comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation. Challenging both the notion of a homogenous relationship with time across generations and the idea of a universalised middle-aged self, Degnen argues that the complex interplay of social, cultural and physical attributes of ageing means that older people can come to have a different position in relation to time and to the self than younger people, unseating normative conventions about narrative and temporality.

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Manchester University Press

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Animals and Science

From Colonial Encounters to the Biotech Industry

By: Maggie Bolton,Cathrine Degnen

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Animals and Science

From Colonial Encounters to the Biotech Industry

By: Maggie Bolton,Cathrine Degnen

What exactly does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This is a question that the various contributors to this edited collection set out to answer. This range of studies explores the intersections between animals and science across different ethnographic settings and in different historical periods. The contributions to this volume look at what it means to be human, the place of human beings vis à vis other species on this planet, our ideas of what nature and culture are, the limits to our ideas of kinship, the ethical debates that surround science, together with their interpretation by both scientific communities and the lay public, and the moral comportment of scientists. Through focusing on science, our contributors not only demonstrate that people elsewhere have different relationships with, and knowledge of, beasts (and that different possibilities of relating to animals exist within our own Western worldview), but further suggest that our Western knowledge about animals and their positions in society, arrived at through Western science and the social sciences, is itself in need of rethinking—to incorporate other ways of knowing. This volume contends that accounts in which animals meet science provide important theoretical insights for anthropologists and can set new agendas for theory in anthropology and science studies.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Animals and Science

Animals and Science

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