Contingent Lives
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Author |
: Caroline H. Bledsoe |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2002-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226058528 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226058522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingent Lives by : Caroline H. Bledsoe
Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.
Author |
: Caroline H. Bledsoe |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2010-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226058504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226058506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingent Lives by : Caroline H. Bledsoe
Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason—to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.
Author |
: Dan DiPiero |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2022-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472903115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 047290311X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingent Encounters by : Dan DiPiero
Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the music of Eric Dolphy, Norwegian free improvisers, Mr. K, and the Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis duo with improvised activities in everyday life (such as walking, baking, working, and listening), DiPiero concludes that improvisation appears as a function of any encounter between subjects, objects, and environments. Bringing contingency into conversation with the utopian strain of critical improvisation studies, DiPiero shows how particular social investments cause improvisation to be associated with relative freedom, risk-taking, and unpredictability in both scholarship and public discourse. Taking seriously the claim that improvisation is the same thing as living, Contingent Encounters overturns long-standing assumptions about the aesthetic and political implications of this notoriously slippery term.
Author |
: David C. M. Dickson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2012-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107608443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107608449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks by : David C. M. Dickson
"This manual presents solutions to all exercises from Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks (AMLCR) by David C.M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy, Howard Waters; Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521118255"--Pref.
Author |
: Liane Carlson |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2019-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231548977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231548974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingency and the Limits of History by : Liane Carlson
Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deployed contingency to show that all institutions and ideas could have been otherwise as a critique of the status quo. Yet scholars have spent very little time considering the genealogy of contingency itself—or what its history means for its role in politics. In Contingency and the Limits of History, Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in “touch,” contending that much of its critical, disruptive power is specific to our current historical moment. She returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers such as Novalis, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, and Serres have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world. Through studies of sickness, loneliness, violation, and love, she shows that different experiences of contingency can lead to dramatically dissimilar ethical and political projects. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory’s most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.
Author |
: William MORGAN (F.R.S.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1821 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0024517393 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Principles and Doctrine of Assurances, Annuities on Lives, and Contingent Reversions, Stated and Explained by : William MORGAN (F.R.S.)
Author |
: Susan Oyama |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2003-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262650630 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262650632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cycles of Contingency by : Susan Oyama
The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
Author |
: Marcus Düwell |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2008-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402067648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140206764X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contingent Nature of Life by : Marcus Düwell
This volume explores the different dimensions of how the contingency of life, and especially human life, is relevant for ethical discussions and the normative frameworks in bioethics. It explores the relevance of the notion contingency, needs and desires for moral argumentation and bioethics. The volume discusses those notions in a philosophical perspective. Additionally, the volume is a contribution to a deeper reflection on basic philosophical assumptions of bioethics.
Author |
: Kathryn A. Mariner |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2019-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520971240 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520971248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingent Kinship by : Kathryn A. Mariner
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of “intimate speculation,” a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption’s outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption—and the families it produces—possible.
Author |
: Larry May |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107121867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107121868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contingent Pacifism by : Larry May
The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.