Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course
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
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course
Cathrine Degnen
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course
Cathrine Degnen School of Geography, Politics & Sociology Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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To Leo, Sebastian and Suzanne—with my loving appreciation for all that I have learned from you about the making of persons.
Acknowledgements
I have incurred many debts in the course of writing this book. The largest of all is to my family who have stood by me with love and patience, especially in the final stages of preparation, and whom I cannot thank enough. My second largest debt and thanks are to my many fellow anthropologists whose work I draw on to build my analysis in this volume. It has been an enormous privilege for me to spend so much time immersed in the extraordinary body of literature they have laboured for more than a century to create. I only hope that I have done justice here to their work, and to the lives of the people they themselves were working with, to whom we are all indebted. My own biography as an anthropologist is deeply bound up in the story I tell in this volume. It was a course taken at l’Université Laval in Québec with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure on the ethnography of Inuit peoples that first introduced me to studies of the circumpolar north, and which led me to u
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