Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course

Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
ISBN-10
1137513446
ISBN-13
9781137513441
Category
Social Science
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
2015-09-01
Publisher
Springer
Author
Erdmute Alber

Description

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.

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