Undisciplined : : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 / / Nihad Farooq.
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both conteste...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 9 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence: Object Lessons in the Land of Fire
- 2. Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight: Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia
- 3. Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century
- 4. Performing Diaspora: The Science of Speaking for Haiti
- Conclusion: “I Danced, I Don’t Know How”: Media, Race, and the Posthuman
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author