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- catalog abstract ""The body is a central reality of culture and a fundamental site at which culture is expressed in action and in thought. Yet anthropological analyses continue to regard the body as a cultural artifact - something static, objectifiable, and removed from the everyday experiences of living in society. These are the central ideas in Elusive Fragments: Making Power, Propriety & Health in Samoa. In this book, the author argues for another way of thinking about the body and bodies. Based on ongoing field research in Samoa, the author describes everyday processes of village and family life as the primary sites through which the body works as an agent of cultural production. By locating the body as a process of awareness and enactment, he links it with Samoan concerns for dignity, humility, and strength, thereby illuminating central dynamics within Samoan culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Making power, propriety & health in Samoa".
- catalog contributor b12526322.
- catalog coverage "Samoan Islands Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The body is a central reality of culture and a fundamental site at which culture is expressed in action and in thought. Yet anthropological analyses continue to regard the body as a cultural artifact - something static, objectifiable, and removed from the everyday experiences of living in society. These are the central ideas in Elusive Fragments: Making Power, Propriety & Health in Samoa. In this book, the author argues for another way of thinking about the body and bodies. Based on ongoing field research in Samoa, the author describes everyday processes of village and family life as the primary sites through which the body works as an agent of cultural production. By locating the body as a process of awareness and enactment, he links it with Samoan concerns for dignity, humility, and strength, thereby illuminating central dynamics within Samoan culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Author's Preface and Acknowledgments: On Being a Body Out of Place -- A Note on Pronunciational Orthography -- Ch. 1. A Prologue: Nights and Days in the Kingdoms of the Sick -- Ch. 2. The Body in Question and the Question of the Body: Finding and Knowing Bodies in the Social Field -- Ch. 3. Finding Samoa: Life, Living and Culture -- Ch. 4. Becoming Real: Making Babies into Bodies -- Ch. 5. Embodying Moral Orders: Space, Modesty and Eating -- Ch. 6. The Statutory Body: Discipline and Control -- Ch. 7. Pleasures and Punishments: Living in and Beyond the Appropriate -- Ch. 8. Bodies of Danger/Bodies Endangered: Illness, Healing, and the Pursuits of Dignity -- Ch. 9. Changes in Directions/The Directions of Change in Making Proper Samoan Bodies -- Ch. 10. Elusive Fragments: The Embodying of Theory and Praxis.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 260 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Elusive fragments.".
- catalog identifier "0890897468".
- catalog isFormatOf "Elusive fragments.".
- catalog isPartOf "Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press,".
- catalog relation "Elusive fragments.".
- catalog spatial "Samoa.".
- catalog spatial "Samoan Islands Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Samoan Islands.".
- catalog subject "2002 F-903".
- catalog subject "301/.09961/3 21".
- catalog subject "Anthropology Samoa.".
- catalog subject "Cultural Characteristics Samoa.".
- catalog subject "D793e 2002".
- catalog subject "GN 296.5 S24".
- catalog subject "GN671.S2 D76 2002".
- catalog subject "Health Samoa.".
- catalog subject "Human body Samoan Islands.".
- catalog subject "Medical anthropology Samoan Islands.".
- catalog subject "Samoans Health and hygiene.".
- catalog subject "Social Environment Samoa.".
- catalog subject "Traditional medicine Samoan Islands.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Author's Preface and Acknowledgments: On Being a Body Out of Place -- A Note on Pronunciational Orthography -- Ch. 1. A Prologue: Nights and Days in the Kingdoms of the Sick -- Ch. 2. The Body in Question and the Question of the Body: Finding and Knowing Bodies in the Social Field -- Ch. 3. Finding Samoa: Life, Living and Culture -- Ch. 4. Becoming Real: Making Babies into Bodies -- Ch. 5. Embodying Moral Orders: Space, Modesty and Eating -- Ch. 6. The Statutory Body: Discipline and Control -- Ch. 7. Pleasures and Punishments: Living in and Beyond the Appropriate -- Ch. 8. Bodies of Danger/Bodies Endangered: Illness, Healing, and the Pursuits of Dignity -- Ch. 9. Changes in Directions/The Directions of Change in Making Proper Samoan Bodies -- Ch. 10. Elusive Fragments: The Embodying of Theory and Praxis.".
- catalog title "Elusive fragments : making power, propriety & health in Samoa / Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian.".
- catalog title "Making power, propriety & health in Samoa".
- catalog type "text".