Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia, India, Palestine and Mexico) and se
Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia, India, Palestine and Mexico) and se
Ludek Broz is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Daniel Mÿnster is a junior research group leader in the cluster of excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I Introduction: The anthropology of suicide: ethnography and the tension of agency Daniel Münster and Ludek Broz. Part II Suicide Personhood and Relationality: Personhood agency and suicide in a neo-liberalizing South India James Staples; The lonely un-dead and returning suicide in northwest Greenland Janne Flora; Between demons and disease: suicide and agency in Yucatan Mexico Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster; Four funerals and a wedding: suicide sacrifice and (non-)human agency in a Siberian village Ludek Broz. Part III Self-Destruction and Power: Bodies Resistance and Crises: Farmers' suicide and the moral economy of agriculture: victimhood voice and agro-environmental responsibility in South India Daniel Münster; Dying to live in Palestine: steadfastness pollution and embodied space Deen Sharp and Natalia Linos; Accumulating death: women's moral agency and domestic economies of care in South India Jocelyn Chua; Learning suicide and the limits of agency: children's 'suicide play' in Sri Lanka Tom Widger; Suicide agency and the limits of power Katrina Jaworski. Part IV Afterword: Afterword: taking relationality to extremes Marilyn Strathern
Part I Introduction: The anthropology of suicide: ethnography and the tension of agency Daniel Münster and Ludek Broz. Part II Suicide Personhood and Relationality: Personhood agency and suicide in a neo-liberalizing South India James Staples; The lonely un-dead and returning suicide in northwest Greenland Janne Flora; Between demons and disease: suicide and agency in Yucatan Mexico Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster; Four funerals and a wedding: suicide sacrifice and (non-)human agency in a Siberian village Ludek Broz. Part III Self-Destruction and Power: Bodies Resistance and Crises: Farmers' suicide and the moral economy of agriculture: victimhood voice and agro-environmental responsibility in South India Daniel Münster; Dying to live in Palestine: steadfastness pollution and embodied space Deen Sharp and Natalia Linos; Accumulating death: women's moral agency and domestic economies of care in South India Jocelyn Chua; Learning suicide and the limits of agency: children's 'suicide play' in Sri Lanka Tom Widger; Suicide agency and the limits of power Katrina Jaworski. Part IV Afterword: Afterword: taking relationality to extremes Marilyn Strathern
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