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The Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (Paperback)
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The Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (Paperback)
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The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people
who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to
life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential
concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being.
Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with
HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often
unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and
understanding that people experience in the face of death. By
bringing an "experience-near" ethnographic focus to the streams of
inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are
central to the experience of illness and everyday life, this
monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological
contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human
condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries
of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of
capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that
affect us all of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise
of continued life.
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