Rituals of Care (eBook)

Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand

Felicity Aulino (Autor)

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2019
210 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501739750 (ISBN)

Infos

Aulino's work is a strong contribution to the study of aging in the field of medical anthropology specifically because of the focus on the embodied performativity of care evident in her research practice and analysis. Rituals of Care is an excellent book, which offers a thoughtful approach to everyday care in Thailand. ― Anthropology & Aging

End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the anthropology of political action, and the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice. Felicity Aulino's Rituals of Care speaks directly to these important anthropological and existential conversations. Against the backdrop of global population aging and increased attention to care for the elderly, both personal and professional, Aulino challenges common presumptions about the universal nature of "caring." The way she examines particular sets of emotional and practical ways of being with people, and their specific historical lineages, allows Aulino to show an inseparable link between forms of social organization and forms of care.

Unlike most accounts of the quotidian concerns of providing care in a rapidly aging society, Rituals of Care brings attention to corporeal processes. Moving from vivid descriptions of the embodied routines at the heart of home caregiving to depictions of care practices in more general ways—care for one's group, care of the polity—it develops the argument that religious, social, and political structures are embodied, through habituated action, in practices of providing for others. Under the watchful treatment of Aulino, care becomes a powerful foil for understanding recent political turmoil and structural change in Thailand, proving embodied practice to be a vital vantage point for phenomenological and political analyses alike.

Autor

Felicity Aulino is a Five-College Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. The Karma of Care: Ordinary Actions and Their Consequences
2. The Conditioning of Care: Intention, Emotion, and Restraint
3. The Subjects of Care: Perceiving the Social Body
4. The Civic Landscape of Care: Merit and the Spirit of Volunteering for Elders
5. The Violence of Care: Pity and Compassion, Patronage and Repression
Conclusion: On Unending Care: Rituals for Making Things So

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: anthropologist of aging • anthropology of morality • Buddhism culture • buddhist history • buddhist karma • Buddhist philosophy • buddhist practice • buddhist rituals • buddhist selfcare practices • Buddhist Studies • Caregiving • culture Buddhism • End-of-life issues • ethnographer • ethnography • forms of care • Karma • karma for caring • karmic politics • Medical Anthropology • performativity of care • rapidly aging society • religious studies, subjectivity, medical anthropology, moral anthropology, phenomenology • Social organization • South East Asia • Thai culture • Thai studies • the anthropology of political action • Theravada Buddhism • Theravada Buddhist • Theravada Buddhist context of Thai society • Theravada Buddhist practice • Theravada Buddhist rituals
• ISBN-13: 9781501739750 / 9781501739750