{"product_id":"self-alteration-how-people-change-themselves-across-cultures-paperback-softback-9781978837225","title":"Self-Alteration; How People Change Themselves Across Cultures (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978837225","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelf-Alteration\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow People Change Themselves Across Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Paul Baldacchino (Edited by), Christopher Houston (Edited by), Max Harwood (Contributions by), Gil Hizi (Contributions by), Michael Jackson (Contributions by), Muhammad Kavesh (Contributions by), Gisella Orsini (Contributions by), Nigel Rapport (Contributions by), Kathryn Rountree (Contributions by), Banu Senay (Contributions by), Jaap Timmer (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978837225\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 4 color images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.054 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Anthropology has only recently focused on one of the basic human experiences: that people set out to change themselves, and they do so using the tools that their culture offers to them. This volume presents a rich array of observations around this theme to carry the conversation forward.\" - Tanya Luhrmann (author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others) \"This remarkable volume casts new light on our understanding of selfhood, by looking at the ways different people in different contexts alter themselves.\" - Jon P. Mitchell (author of Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMany of us feel a pressing desire to be different-to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a practical care-can \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e change, and how? \u003ci\u003eSelf-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e explores and analyzes these apparently universal hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves, including through religious and spiritual traditions and innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChapter 1 Introduction: A Time for Change: Modes of Self-Alteration\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Religious Cultures, Spiritual Practices, and Self-Alteration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Exemplary Masters, Exemplary Reeds: Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music\u003cbr\u003e Banu Şenay\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Re-imagining Self and Self-Alteration in Contemporary New Age, Pagan and Neo-Shamanic Spiritualities\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Rountree\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Wounded by Grace: Becoming a Prophet in an Evangelical Revival in Solomon Islands\u003cbr\u003e Jaap Timmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Self-Alteration and Political Activism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Fabricating the New Man and Woman: Self-Alteration Through Revolutionary Socialism\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Houston\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Transcendental Terror: Zen Self-Transformation through White Supremacist Atrocity, from Nazi Germany to UtØ\u003cbr\u003eya and Christchurch\u003cbr\u003e Max Harwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Gendered Bodies and Therapeutic Interventions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Beautiful, Moral, Functional: Bodily Self-Alteration in an Italian Centre for Eating Disorders\u003cbr\u003e Gisella Orsini\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 Porous Individuality as Self-Alteration: Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China\u003cbr\u003e Gil Hizi\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 How Is Psychoanalysis a Mode of Self-Alteration? Anthropological Interrogations\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Paul Baldacchino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Self-Alteration, The Human, and the More-Than-Human\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 Mutualistic Self-Alteration: Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e Muhammad A. Kavesh\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11 Self-Alteration as Human Capacity and as Cosmopolitan Right\u003cbr\u003e Nigel Rapport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part V: Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12 Making Oneself Otherwise: Reflections on Natality\u003cbr\u003e Michael Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments     \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520940110104,"sku":"9781978837225","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/self-alteration-how-people-change-themselves-across-cultures-paperback-softback-9781978837225","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}