personhood readings

Question 1

anne becker wrote?

Answer 1

nurtering, food exchange in fiji 1995

Question 2

fijians?

Answer 2

cultivate body and space
little cultural to define ‘ideal body shape’ (despite asethetic appreciation)

pay more attention to individual variance

personal achievemnt by care performance and competence in providing food and services to other

Question 3

what does the body represent to the fijians

Answer 3

responsbility of microcumeinity to care and feed

body as indicator of social strength

Question 4

what is magisis

Answer 4

festive events where food is exchanged to affirm satification with neighbours in fiji

Question 5

what is kanavelevv

Answer 5

rhetoric of care in fiji; colelctive performative

primary cultural peocupation is hunger

Question 6

meaning of food in fiji

Answer 6

determien relationships as sign of colelctive resource and lavour;
consumed in vvast quantities adn assosications

kavu= totem root that roge solidairty in social gatherings as connecting to ancestrs adn welcoming visitors

food consumption as a totemic linkage to project colelctivty identitiy, locaility an dkinship

supiscion to ‘outsider food’ as it could be poisonoused or diseased

Question 7

papa new guinea and food

Answer 7

food hoarding judged and sharing encouraged

Question 8

hunger in fiji

Answer 8

is a moral commentary on persons ability to feed slf and assosiate with community

however being too fat shows glutony; which implies food hoarding

Question 9

what did Anand Dandian write and what his his argument

Answer 9

2010: interior horizons; ethical space of self hood in south india
argument: interior selfhood in sotuh india understood by morally confuement of colonial western domination

Question 10

western selfhood

Answer 10

found in interiorities
self is an individual and individsible

neitzhe; soul is inward and relationhips as individual are interirotes to their exteriorities

morality achieved by self reflection

Question 11

what is selfhood in india like

Answer 11

aesthetic cleansing of soul is inward to purify sense of other

Question 12

ayvath thevar

Answer 12

from combum valley in Tami Nadu State in South India;

interior dialouge of pain and reflection (split in sense of self); he is blind and originally from a wealthy family but became w diwoder, landelss and was rejected by children

he has failed judgement as he wants to nurture relationships but has non

Question 13

colelctive history of interiorizaiton in india

Answer 13

‘ethical selfhood’ is inheireted; castes define moral selfhood

stereotypes assosicated with cases (like the Kallar community being lawless and impulsive by nature)

therefore selfhood is a radition of morality and ethics; attachement is bad

Question 14

anand dandians conclusions about selfhood in india

Answer 14

inward folding of exterior life: (colonialism is disrupting it)

1. colelctive history of morality in a case
2. inheritred tradition of moral ocnduct
3. engagement with matieral and social life

Question 15

what did jane carsten write

Answer 15

‘after kinship’ 2004; looks at how kin ties are intristinc to social contribution of a person in the west
; tries to overturn dichotomy between ‘western individualism’ and ‘nonwestern joined up’ person (i.e. individualism vs relationalitiy)

Question 16

marily straterns concept of a person

Answer 16

personhood is found in relationship values and functiosn of society

Question 17

mauss concept of a person

Answer 17

prsonhood found ni historical and cultural contexts as a social history, defined through legal and moral terms

Question 18

pueblo indians

Answer 18

clan made up of multiple persons encalsupated by social roal (individual not seperation from function)

Question 19

non western concept of person

Answer 19

‘joined up oerson’ connectenedd and onon individiality; wider kin group form a colelctive idenetiy

Question 20

meyer fortes and tallensi in west africa

Answer 20

personhood as externally oriented

at birth; process of becoming a person begins; only when child is full adult consisered POTENTIAL person

at death; pull personhood achieved and checked by diviniion

personhood: marriage, children and social relationships throughout lifetime to ultimately continue patrilineal lineage

Question 21

yin in tallensi?

Answer 21

‘good destiny’ that differs each individual and is sean as the concinutiation of the acnestral persons; women assosiated with patrillenal yin and cant obtain full personhood therefore

Question 22

maurce bloch and the west

Answer 22

too much focus on individuality of person in west; leads to abortion euthanasia and other ethical debates as no coherent view of ‘being’

Question 23

diane blood case 1946

Answer 23

legal judgement focused on individual right of STEPHEN to donate blood

in contrast:

diane focused on RELATIONAL KINSHIP and public symapthy

Question 24

abrahamas 1990 and kideny/organ translat

Answer 24

boundaries of a person ‘donor’ and recipient; medically established

but culturally: relatives of deceased donor want to establish relationships with reciptient of decased odnor to see donor live on

medical law aims to maintain condifentiatliy and idscource this contunity

Question 25

adoption and personhood

Answer 25

in Scotland 1988: a grown adopted woman aims to findher father by dna screening in an attempt of ‘finding herself’

Question 26

carstens conclusions about personhood

Answer 26

in euroamerican context; identiy related to biological ancestry; this knoweldge of kinship relationality creates ideneitites as ‘constitituve information’

therefore kinship is intristic to ideneity and perosnhood in west; without knoweldge of paretndhood adn individuals sense of self is fractures or partial

Question 27

rebecca empeson wrote… and argument?

Answer 27

mongolia; personhood in objects

argument; mongolian ‘xinshing’ shows what kinship looks like in mongolia; shows containment of parts are seperated from whole to maintain kin relationships

kinship is the seperation of people and attention of things

DOING makes them visible or invisible; RELATIONANAL perpsectives show snow mongolian relationshisp create by separation and containment

Question 28

what is xinshing

Answer 28

mongolian concept of fortune; motivate ‘avar’; sperates a piece of a person and contatins it a difference form

Question 29

object sin mongolia

Answer 29

demand respect as people in mongolia; dont represent people but convienve the essense of a person tied to their belonging

• not visual subsittiues for people but show how relationshi come into existence by the recation of ‘things’ or ‘piece to allow for a ‘liveable relationship’ in nomad culture

Question 30

yum

Answer 30

‘thing’ dont hav eot b ematieral objects

can be visible or invisible

things on top of the chest; abosrb people relations and continuation of certain relations insid ea shared space

Question 31

significance of speration and assemblage in mongolia

Answer 31

maintains connections with a person and place throuh ‘shared bone’ idea in agnatic kinships

objects act as anchors that tie the moving people around

Question 32

signfiicance of photo montage (mongolia)

Answer 32

demonstrates network of relations; individuals as ocmposed in a group

Question 33

nomadic herding in mongolia

Answer 33

• maintaing relations in absense of people throug things; relation tio things created as persons physical and spiritual location in a shared space in a chest in a hosue