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Nihad Farooq - Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 - 9781479806997 - V9781479806997
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Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

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Description for Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 Paperback. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.

In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.
Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq’s Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479806997
SKU
V9781479806997
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Nihad Farooq
Nihad M. Farooq is Associate Professor of American & Atlantic Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Reviews for Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Persuasive and thought-provoking,Undisciplinedargues against overly simplistic accounts of the work of modern science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With dazzling archival work, Nihad M. Farooq examines the sometimes-playful and often-sobering negotiations of those who were being studied as they returned the gaze ofand spoke backtotheir Western observers. Engaging with histories of slavery, colonialism, and diaspora, Farooq makes a ... Read more

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