Alber / Drotbohm Anthropological Perspectives on Care

Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-51344-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 237 Seiten, eBook

In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences. As a result of this proliferation of care in several disciplinary fields, we are observing not only the expansion of its conceptual meaning, but also an increasing imprecision in its usage. A growing amount of literature focuses on the intersection between work, gender, ethnicity, affect, and mobility regimes. In view of this growing field of literature, Anthropological Perspectives on Care looks at the notion of care from an anthropological perspective. Complementing earlier approaches, Alber and Drotbohm argue that an interpretation of care in relation to three different concepts, namely work, kinship and the life-course, will facilitate empirical and conceptual distinctions between the different activities that are labeled as care.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alber, Erdmute

Drotbohm, Heike

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alber, Erdmute

Drotbohm, Heike

Über Autor(innen)

Cati Coe, Rutgers Universit, USA
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Carleton College, USA
Tabea Häberlein, Bayreuth University, Germany
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Brown University, USA
Maria Lidola, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Claudia Liebelt, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Anna Katharina Skornia, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Tatjana Thelen, University of Vienna, Austria