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Life Beside Itself - Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (Paperback)
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Life Beside Itself - Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (Paperback)
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In "Life Beside Itself, "Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting
ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for
the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis
epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide
epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles
our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to
care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images
in which we think and dream and through which we understand the
world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself:
the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his
friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead
friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin
uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian
policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by
merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of
us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms
of care for others that are adequate to that truth.
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