دانلود کتاب Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World

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Cover......Page 1
Dedication......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness......Page 11
The book’s composition......Page 17
1: Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization......Page 20
A genealogy of hybridity......Page 25
The biopolitics of hybridization, medicalization, and cultural brokering......Page 32
Medicalization as cultural brokering and staging......Page 35
Traditional, modern and postmodern anthropology in search of its other......Page 40
2: Becoming a Non-Hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others......Page 56
Before taking the plunge......Page 57
Social theory and extreme old age......Page 63
The academic disciplines of anthropology and gerontology in the context of extreme old age......Page 65
The old-as-other in anthropology and gerontology......Page 70
Third World and Third Age: a tale of two hybrids......Page 74
Research methodology and extreme old age......Page 79
Surrogate terminology......Page 81
Recognizing the extra-cultural......Page 83
From the Third to the Fourth Age: a hybrid turned non-hybrid......Page 85
On the incomprehensibility of the category of the Fourth Age......Page 91
Self-excommunication......Page 92
On abortive dialogues with the Fourth Age......Page 93
On meaning and memory in the Fourth Age......Page 97
The amoral journey toward the Fourth Age......Page 98
3: Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity......Page 101
Beyond debate? The cultural void of the Holocaust......Page 102
Shoah-business......Page 106
Translating the Holocaust: The “rebel” vs the “lamb to slaughter”......Page 112
The case of autism, or those on the spectrum......Page 117
Pain, the old barbarian......Page 126
Surviving pain......Page 134
Old age and the mark of pain......Page 135
Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In......Page 141
References......Page 154
Index......Page 175
EULA......Page 191