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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- PublishedOn
- 2014-04-29
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- India
- ISBN
- 9780520281165
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520281160
ISBN-13
9780520281165
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175918806
Product Key Features
Book Title
In Pursuit of the Good Life : Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Suicide
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2013-049686
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A timely and important contribution to the emerging anthropological critique of _suicide_ as a kind of human behaviour and as an object for social and medical intervention., A timely and important contribution to the emerging anthropological critique of 'suicide' as a kind of human behaviour and as an object for social and medical intervention.
Dewey Decimal
362.280954/83
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Note Introduction PART ONE. The "Problem" of Striving 1 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea 2 Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops 3 Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell PART TWO. On Living in a Time of Suicide 4 Care-full Acts 5 Anywhere but Here 6 Fit for the Future Afterword Notes References Index
Synopsis
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.
LC Classification Number
HV6548.I52K4739 2014
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