Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
Erdmute Alber
Sep 2015 · Springer
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237
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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.
About the author
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
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