Undisciplined : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

Undisciplined Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both conteste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Farooq, Nihad M., 1971- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2016]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
Materias:
Ethnology > America > History > 19th century.
Ethnology > America > History > 20th century.
Persons > Philosophy.
Philosophical anthropology > History > 19th century.
Philosophical anthropology > History > 20th century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009809028706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence: Object Lessons in the Land of Fire
  • 2. Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight: Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia
  • 3. Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century
  • 4. Performing Diaspora: The Science of Speaking for Haiti
  • Conclusion: “I Danced, I Don’t Know How”: Media, Race, and the Posthuman
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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