Life Beside Itself

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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, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself the name soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend s newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is somewhere else, and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth. Best Read Life Beside Itself by Lisa Stevenson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I read this book for my anthropology class and feel sort of ambivalent about the whole thing It definitely wasn t a bad book, although I wasn t reading it because it was bad or good or for pleasure , so that might sway how I feel It was very interesting and super related to what I want to do with my life in terms of the public health aspect, but it didn t feel like it flowed very well It s an ethnography so of course it s not really got a plot like one thinks of in a fiction novel, but each I read this book for my anthropology class and feel sort of ambivalent about the whole thing It definitely wasn t a bad book, although I wasn t reading it because it was bad or good or for pleasure , so that might sway how I feel It was very interesting and super related to what I want to do with my life in terms of the public health aspect, but it didn t feel like it flowed very well It s an ethnography so of course it s not really got a plot like one thinks of in a fiction novel, but each chapter could somewhat tie together which to a certain extent it did it just felt kind of choppy to me What I really enjoyed about the story was how she didn t try to ...Careful ethnographic writing, but at times overextended theoretical elaboration.

Life Beside Itself
  • English
  • 08 June 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 268 pages
  • Lisa Stevenson
  • Life Beside Itself