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The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (Malinowski Monographs)
Andrew Irving
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Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an experience-near ethnographic focus to the streams of ... Read more
The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an experience-near ethnographic focus to the streams of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HAU
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780997367515
SKU
V9780997367515
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About Andrew Irving
Andrew Irving is director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Reviews for The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice (Malinowski Monographs)
This beautifully written and constructed book weaves together sophisticated social theory, philosophy, art work, and vivid biographical narratives to offer insights into how HIV/AIDS patients have learned to live a meaningful existence in the pre- and post-antiretroviral eras while negotiating a terminal illness. Basing his book on 20 years of work with adults living with HIV/AIDS in New ... Read more