Rituals of care, karmic politics in an aging Thailand, Felicity Aulino
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Rituals of care, karmic politics in an aging Thailand, Felicity Aulino
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Rituals of care
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dictionaries
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Felicity Aulino
Sub title
karmic politics in an aging Thailand
Summary
End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the anthropology of political action, and the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice. Felicity Aulino's Rituals of Care speaks directly to these important anthropological and existential conversations. Against the backdrop of global population aging and increased attention to care for the elderly, both personal and professional, Aulino challenges common presumptions about the universal nature of "caring." The way she examines particular sets of emotional and practical ways of being with people, and their specific historical lineages, allows Aulino to show an inseparable link between forms of social organization and forms of care. Unlike most accounts of the quotidian concerns of providing care in a rapidly aging society, Rituals of Care brings attention to corporeal processes. Moving from vivid descriptions of the embodied routines at the heart of home caregiving to depictions of care practices in more general ways-care for one's group, care of the polity-it develops the argument that religious, social, and political structures are embodied, through habituated action, in practices of providing for others. Under the watchful treatment of Aulino, care becomes a powerful foil for understanding recent political turmoil and structural change in Thailand, proving embodied practice to be a vital vantage point for phenomenological and political analyses alike
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adult
resource.variantTitle
Karmic politics in an aging Thailand
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- Caregivers -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Older people -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Social conditions
- Electronic books
- Buddhism + Social aspects -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Older people + Care -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Population aging + Social aspects -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Ethnology -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
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- Caregivers -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Older people -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Social conditions
- Electronic books
- Buddhism + Social aspects -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Older people + Care -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Population aging + Social aspects -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- Ethnology -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
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- Author1
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