{"product_id":"throw-your-voice-suspended-animations-in-kazakhstani-childhoods-hardback-9781501776458","title":"Throw Your Voice; Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods (Hardback) 9781501776458","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThrow Your Voice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSuspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMeghanne Barker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501776458\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages, 23 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 23 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 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\u003cp\u003eAnthropology as a whole has largely focused on adults, so many anthropologists will find the book a refreshing exploration of children's lived experiences, including their play and fantasy worlds. The book's writing style is accessible and at times lyrical, with more technical semiotic analysis and references reserved for the footnotes. Ultimately, Barker's work exemplifies how, even without taking language as its primary object, linguistic anthropology's interpretive approach can illuminate the aesthetic, material, and intimate processes through which social relations are made and sustained.\u003c\/p\u003e (Linguistic Anthropology)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrow Your Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a story of loss and recovery.\u003c\/b\u003e It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. Sites and stories run in parallel. Framed by the narrative of Anton Chekhov's \"Kashtanka,\" about a lost dog taken in by a kind stranger, the author follows the story's staging at the puppet theater. At Hope House, children find themselves on a path similar to Kashtanka, dislodged from their first homes to reside in a second.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe heart of this story is about living in displacement and about the fragile intimacies achieved amidst conditions of missing. Whether due to war, migration, or pandemic, people get separated from those closest to them. \u003ci\u003eThrow Your Voice\u003c\/i\u003e examines how strangers become familiar, and how objects mediate precarious ties. She shows how people use fantasy to mitigate loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Getting Lost\u003cbr\u003e 2. Meeting a Strangwer\u003cbr\u003e 3. Jumping Through Hoops\u003cbr\u003e 4. Getting Comfortable\u003cbr\u003e 5. Losing a Friend\u003cbr\u003e 6. Going Home Again\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608271089944,"sku":"9781501776458","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/throw-your-voice-suspended-animations-in-kazakhstani-childhoods-hardback-9781501776458","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}