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Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist
Anthropology Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original
and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography
and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes
of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that
showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher.
Through an unwavering commitment to a child's perspective, Clara
Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is
dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood
memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who
fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement
in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated
the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean
language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose
fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents-to
Korea and to the Korean language-allowing her, as she explains, to
find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or
broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the
project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the
event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the
inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the
child inhabits her everyday life. Seeing Like a Child offers
readers a unique experience-an intimate engagement with the
emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass
displacement and death-inviting us to explore categories such as
"catastrophe," "war," "violence," and "kinship" in a brand-new
light.
Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist
Anthropology Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original
and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography
and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes
of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that
showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher.
Through an unwavering commitment to a child's perspective, Clara
Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is
dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood
memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who
fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement
in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated
the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean
language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose
fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents-to
Korea and to the Korean language-allowing her, as she explains, to
find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or
broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the
project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the
event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the
inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the
child inhabits her everyday life. Seeing Like a Child offers
readers a unique experience-an intimate engagement with the
emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass
displacement and death-inviting us to explore categories such as
"catastrophe," "war," "violence," and "kinship" in a brand-new
light.
Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in
Latin America, carried out and made possible through state
violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state
has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts
owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor
accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization,
while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human rights
violations. "Life in Debt" invites us into lives and world of a
poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives
between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han explores how the moral and
political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental
health policies and reparations for human rights violations are
refracted through relational modes and their boundaries. Attending
to intimate scenes and neighborhood life, Han reveals the force of
relations in the making of selves in a world in which unstable work
patterns, illness, and pervasive economic indebtedness are aspects
of everyday life. Lucidly written, "Life in Debt" provides a unique
meditation on both the past inhabiting actual life conditions but
also on the difficulties of obligation and achievements of
responsiveness.
Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence
and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way
we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a
globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is
not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de
force - a deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and
yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book
comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and
historical work is conducted around the globe, including South
Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe,
and the United States. Bringing together the work of established
scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and
Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists,
sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who
are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing
institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in
Latin America, carried out and made possible through state
violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state
has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts
owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor
accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization,
while society owed a "moral debt" to the victims of human rights
violations. "Life in Debt" invites us into lives and world of a
poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives
between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han explores how the moral and
political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental
health policies and reparations for human rights violations are
refracted through relational modes and their boundaries. Attending
to intimate scenes and neighborhood life, Han reveals the force of
relations in the making of selves in a world in which unstable work
patterns, illness, and pervasive economic indebtedness are aspects
of everyday life. Lucidly written, "Life in Debt" provides a unique
meditation on both the past inhabiting actual life conditions but
also on the difficulties of obligation and achievements of
responsiveness.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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