Power and the Self

Jeannette Marie Mageo (Editor)

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Author
Jeannette Marie Mageo (Editor)
Publish Date
2002-01-24
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
234
Publisher Name
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521808391
ISBN-13
9780521808392
citemno
120709
Subject
Anthropology
SKU
9780521808392

Description

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".