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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic - Stevenson, Lisa
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In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, ...

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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic 2014, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520282940

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Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic 2014, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520282605

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