Povinelli / Gaonkar / Kramer The Empire of Love

Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8848-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Public planet books

Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A.

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Kramer, Jane

Lee, Benjamin

Warner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Empires of Love: An Introduction 1

1. Rotten Worlds 27

2. Spiritual Freedom, Cultural Copyright 95

3. The Intimate Event and Genealogical Society 175

Notes 237

Bibliography 257

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is also Codirector of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. She is the author of The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism, also published by Duke University Press. She is a former editor of the journal Public Culture.