03892nam 2200865 450 991080708960332120230427125448.00-520-28294-90-520-95855-110.1525/9780520958555(CKB)2550000001334049(EBL)1711050(OCoLC)884725892(SSID)ssj0001289230(PQKBManifestationID)12498752(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289230(PQKBWorkID)11307241(PQKB)10783258(MiAaPQ)EBC1711050(DE-B1597)519000(DE-B1597)9780520958555(Au-PeEL)EBL1711050(CaPaEBR)ebr10898578(CaONFJC)MIL630532(EXLCZ)99255000000133404920140810h20142014 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrLife beside itself imagining care in the Canadian Arctic /Lisa StevensonOakland, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28260-4 1-306-99281-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Prologue --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Facts and Images --2. Cooperating --3. Anonymous Care --4. Life-of-the-Name --5. Why Two Clocks? --6. Song --Epilogue --Notes --References --Illustrations --IndexIn Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940's to the early 1960's) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980's to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth.InuitMedical careCanadaHistoryTuberculosisCanadaHistoryInuitHealth and hygieneCanadaHistoryanthropologist.anthropology.canadian history.canadian inuit.collection of stories.ethnographer.ethnography.historical biography.mental health.new life.professor.psychologist.reincarnation.sociologist.somewhere else.suicide epidemic.tuberculosis epidemic.understanding our world.InuitMedical careHistory.TuberculosisHistory.InuitHealth and hygieneHistory.362.19699/5008997124SOC002000bisacshStevenson Lisa1718918MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807089603321Life beside itself4116264UNINA