Undisciplined : science, ethnography, and personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 / Nihad M. Farooq.

By: Farooq, Nihad M, 1971- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: America and the long 19th century: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781479812684; 1479812684; 9781479806997; 1479806994Subject(s): Ethnology -- America -- History -- 19th century | Ethnology -- America -- History -- 20th century | Philosophical anthropology -- History -- 19th century | Philosophical anthropology -- History -- 20th century | Persons -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 305.80097 LOC classification: E29.A1 | F37 2016
Contents:
Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence : Object Lessons in the Land of Fire -- Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight : Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia -- Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance : Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century -- Performing Diaspora : The Science of Speaking for Haiti -- Conclusion : "I Danced, I Don't Know How" : Media, Race, and the Posthuman.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-236) and index.

Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence : Object Lessons in the Land of Fire -- Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight : Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia -- Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance : Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century -- Performing Diaspora : The Science of Speaking for Haiti -- Conclusion : "I Danced, I Don't Know How" : Media, Race, and the Posthuman.

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