Power and the Self

by Jeannette Marie Mageo (Editor)

Overview

This edited volume deals with an important but neglected topic—the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, as agents as well as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution that relates theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to "everyday forms of violence".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521808392
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/24/2002
Series:	Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology , #13
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...there is a little something for everyone in it. This is due to the good care that Mageo has taken to ensure that the reader is presented with a fair selection of the wide range of topics that a cultural anthropologist interested in power and the self might concern herself with." Metapsychology

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