Power and the Self |
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| Editor:
| Mageo, Jeannette Marie |
| Series title: | Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-80839-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $94.00 |
Book Description:
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This edited volume 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. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, and the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution relating theories about the capacity to commit genocidal...
More DescriptionThis edited volume 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. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, and the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution relating theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to what 'everyday forms of violence'.