Power and the Self

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-80839-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

Power and the Self deals with an important but neglected topic: the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, both as agents and as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts, including the analysis of the appeal of Japanese superhero toys for American children; the conditions that lead to dehumanising treatment of patients in an American nursing home; the experiences of a Turkish immigrant woman in the Netherlands; a contribution relating theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to 'everyday forms of violence', and other cases from New Guinea and Samoa. The introduction provides a readable historical review and synthesis of the theoretical ideas that provide the context for the work presented in the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mageo, Jeannette Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Gananath Obeyesekere; 1. Introduction: Theorizing power and the self Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft; Part I. Power Differentials in the US: 2. The genocidal continuum: peace time crimes Nancy Scheper-Hughes; 3. Intimate power, public selves: Bakhtin's space of authoring William S. Lachicotte; Part II. Transitional Psychologies: 4. Playing with power: morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture Ann Allison; 5. Consciousness of the state and the experience of self: the runaway daughter of a Turkish guest worker Katherine Ewing; Part III. Colonial Encounters: Power/History/Self: 6. Spirit, self, and power: the making of colonial experience in Papua New Guinea Douglas Dalton; 7. Self models and sexual agency Jeannette Mageo; Part IV. Reading Power Against the Grain: 8. Eager subjects, reluctant powers: the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New Guinea male cult Harriet Whitehead; 9. Feminist emotions Catherine Lutz.

Über Autor(innen)

Mageo, Jeannette Marie
Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. She has lived and done extensive fieldwork in the Pacific, and she writes about self, power, transvesticism, spirit possession, moral discourse and body symbolism.