Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course

• Main Author: Degnen, Cathrine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Anthropology.; Life cycle, Human.; Sociology.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Life course.; Sociological Theory.; Social Theory.

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices. In discussing the life course, she investigates personhood as a con...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Making of Personhood
• 2. Making Babies and Being Pregnant: The Debated Beginnings of Personhood
• 3. Personhood, Birth, Babies, and Children
• 4. Place and Personhood
• 5. Human People and Other-Than-Human People
• 6. Older Age and Personhood
• 7. Endangered Forms of Personhood
• 8. Dismantling the Person?: Death and Personhood.