Elusive fragments : making power, propriety & health in Samoa / Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian.
Material type: TextSeries: Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology seriesPublisher: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxvi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0890897468
- 9780890897461
- Making power, propriety & health in Samoa
- 301.099613 21
- GN671.S2 D76 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
Author's Preface and Acknowledgments: On Being a Body Out of Place -- A Note on Pronunciational Orthography -- Ch. 1. A Prologue: Nights and Days in the Kingdoms of the Sick -- Ch. 2. The Body in Question and the Question of the Body: Finding and Knowing Bodies in the Social Field -- Ch. 3. Finding Samoa: Life, Living and Culture -- Ch. 4. Becoming Real: Making Babies into Bodies -- Ch. 5. Embodying Moral Orders: Space, Modesty and Eating -- Ch. 6. The Statutory Body: Discipline and Control -- Ch. 7. Pleasures and Punishments: Living in and Beyond the Appropriate -- Ch. 8. Bodies of Danger/Bodies Endangered: Illness, Healing, and the Pursuits of Dignity -- Ch. 9. Changes in Directions/The Directions of Change in Making Proper Samoan Bodies -- Ch. 10. Elusive Fragments: The Embodying of Theory and Praxis.
"The body is a central reality of culture and a fundamental site at which culture is expressed in action and in thought. Yet anthropological analyses continue to regard the body as a cultural artifact - something static, objectifiable, and removed from the everyday experiences of living in society. These are the central ideas in Elusive Fragments: Making Power, Propriety & Health in Samoa. In this book, the author argues for another way of thinking about the body and bodies. Based on ongoing field research in Samoa, the author describes everyday processes of village and family life as the primary sites through which the body works as an agent of cultural production. By locating the body as a process of awareness and enactment, he links it with Samoan concerns for dignity, humility, and strength, thereby illuminating central dynamics within Samoan culture."--BOOK JACKET.
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