Christopher Dole

Healing Secular Life

Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Dole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244168
• ISBN-10: 0812244168
• Artikelnr.: 35558258

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dole

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization
Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community
Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of
Secular Life
Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value
Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations
Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss
Conclusion: Fragment
Appendix: Genres of Healing
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Acknowledgments