Power and the Self: 13 (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 13)
Cambridge University Press, 1/24/2002
EAN 9780521004602, ISBN10: 0521004608
Paperback, 234 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Power and the Self, first published in 2002, 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, including the analysis of the appeal of Japanese superhero toys for American children; the conditions that lead to dehumanising treatment of patients in an American nursing home; the experiences of a Turkish immigrant woman in the Netherlands; a contribution relating theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to 'everyday forms of violence', and other cases from New Guinea and Samoa. The introduction provides a readable historical review and synthesis of the theoretical ideas that provide the context for the work presented in the book.
Foreword Gananath Obeyesekere
1. Introduction
Theorizing power and the self Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft
Part I. Power Differentials in the US
2. The genocidal continuum
peace time crimes Nancy Scheper-Hughes
3. Intimate power, public selves
Bakhtin's space of authoring William S. Lachicotte
Part II. Transitional Psychologies
4. Playing with power
morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture Ann Allison
5. Consciousness of the state and the experience of self
the runaway daughter of a Turkish guest worker Katherine Ewing
Part III. Colonial Encounters
Power/History/Self
6. Spirit, self, and power
the making of colonial experience in Papua New Guinea Douglas Dalton
7. Self models and sexual agency Jeannette Mageo
Part IV. Reading Power against the Grain
8. Eager subjects, reluctant powers
the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New Guinea male cult Harriet Whitehead
9. Feminist emotions Catherine Lutz.