Power and the self / edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947-

Series:

Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Power (Social sciences)--Cross-cultural studies.

Power (Social sciences).

Self--Cross-cultural studies.

Self.

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1 Introduction: theorizing power and the self / Jeannette Marie Mageo, Bruce M. Knauft 1

Part I Power differentials in the US

2 The genocidal continuum: peace-time crimes / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 29

3 Intimate powers, public selves: Bakhtin's space of authoring / William S. Lachicotte 48

Part II Transnational psychologies

4 Playing with power: morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture / Anne Allison 71

5 Consciousness of the state and the experience of self: the runaway daughter of a Turkish guest worker / Katherine Pratt Ewing 93

Part III Colonial encounters: power/history/self

6 Spirit, self, and power: the making of colonial experience in Papua New Guinea / Douglas Dalton 117

7 Self models and sexual agency / Jeannette Marie Mageo 141

Part IV Reading power against the grain

8 Eager subjects, reluctant powers: the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New Guinea male cult / Harriet Whitehead 177

9 Feminist emotions / Catherine Lutz 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521808391

0521004608

OCLC:

47045132