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"Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The contributors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty"--

Older people --- Aging --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A2 --- Visual anthropology --- Visual sociology --- Sociology --- Visual communication --- Ethnology --- Elder care --- Eldercare --- Care --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Visual anthropology. --- Visual sociology. --- Care. --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects.