Overview
- Poses personhood as a question and breaks new ground in anthropological debates on personhood and relatedness
- Develops a unique and richly comparative analysis of how personhood is a concept ‘put to work’ cross-culturally in a multitude of ways
- Crafts a novel analysis of how personhood as a notion and a value shifts not only according to cultural context, but also across different moments in the life course
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Book Title: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course
Authors: Cathrine Degnen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56642-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56641-6Published: 24 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56642-3Published: 24 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 261
Topics: Anthropology, Life course, Sociological Theory, Social Theory