Becoming an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in Java /: an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in Java. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Konstantinos Retsikas.
• Other Names: Retsikas, Konstantinos
• Contents: Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLEGOMENON; Subjects as motion; Becoming; Chapter 1 THE BECOMING OF PLACE: MOVING, CLEARING, INHABITING; The unity of the beginning; The diversity of poverty; The civility of emplacement; Becoming-place; Chapter 2 THE PERCEPTION OF DIFFERENCE: EMBODYING, REVERSING, ENCOMPASSING; Kinds of bodies; The flesh of the social; Origins, originals and ruptures; The corporeal and the phenomenal; Sensible distinctions; Reversibility and the diaphoron person. Living hierarchyThe fabric; Chapter 3 THE BLOOD OF AFFINITY: MARRYING, PROCREATING, HOUSING; Disjunctive synthesis; The House; Incestuous affines; Becoming-siblings; The 'nature' of siblingship; Moving parts; A manifold of manifestations; Chapter 4 MATTERS OF SCALE: FEEDING, PRAYING, SHARING; A topography of relations; Vitality for the living; Vitality for the dead; Sound and sentiment; Ex-changing scales; Digesting the multitude; The kampong; Chapter 5 A PULSATING UNIVERSE: ANNIHILATING, ENHANCING, MAGNIFYING; Intimate contractions; The enlightenment of the enchanted; Ambiguous animals. Sets of fourReciprocal motions; Chapter 6 THE MARITAL AND THE MARTIAL: GENDERING, KILLING, OSCILLATING; Cross-regional perspectives; Agency and affect; Masculine and feminine bodies; Androgyny; 'Chronicle of a death foretold'; Becoming-gendered; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
• Publisher Details: New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 217 pages :), maps
• Subjects: 305.8009598/2; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Java; Ethnopsychology -- Indonesia -- Java; Personalism -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Java; Kinship -- Indonesia -- Java; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; Java (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857285317; 0857285319
• Related ISBNs: 1283575310; 9781283575317; 9780857285294
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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