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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300583203321

Autore

Degnen Cathrine

Titolo

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course / / by Cathrine Degnen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-56642-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Disciplina

155.2

Soggetti

Anthropology

Life cycle, Human

Sociology

Social sciences—Philosophy

Personhood

Life course

Sociological Theory

Social Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. The Making of Personhood -- 2. Making Babies and Being Pregnant: The Debated Beginnings of Personhood -- 3. Personhood, Birth, Babies, and Children -- 4. Place and Personhood -- 5. Human People and Other-Than-Human People -- 6. Older Age and Personhood -- 7. Endangered Forms of Personhood -- 8. Dismantling the Person?: Death and Personhood.

Sommario/riassunto

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.