Resonance : beyond the words / Unni Wikan.
"Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork résumés in anthropology: Unni Wikan. In its twelve essays--four of which are brand new--Resonance covers encounters with transvestites in Oman, childbirth in Bhutan,...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: A Way in the world
- Introduction
- Beyond the words: the power of resonance
- Toward an anthropology of lived experience
- The self in a world of urgency and necessity
- Against the self: for a person-oriented approach
- Resilience in the megacity: cultural competence among Cairo's poor
- Man becomes woman: the Xanith as a key to gender roles
- Shame and honor: a contestable pair
- The nun's story: reflections on an age-old postmodern dilemma
- In the Middle Way: childbirth and rebirth in Bhutan
- "My Son a Terrorist? He was such a gentle boy
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- On evil and empathy: remembering Ghazala Khan
- Epilogue: Resonance and beyond
- Appendix: On writing.