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About this book
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.
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780520282605
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520958555
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Chapter
1
an
Inuit
wards
of
the
state
and
their
mode
of
“being”
or
“being-attuned”
was
destroyed—the
images
that
their
sons
and
daughters
describe
above
stubbornly
register
the
uniqueness
and
irreducibility
of
that
being.
Still,
the
images
in
this
chapter
are
not
images
that
carry
some
kind
of
redemptive
force.
Peutogak
“gets
criminal,”
Kaujak
dies,
and
the
state
disappears
her
body.
Sakiassie
suffers.
I
haven’t
been
able
to
find
any
trace
of
Kaujak
in
the
archive,
although
I’ll
continue
to
look.
Allowing
our
thought
to
remain
embedded
in
the
images
that
produce
it
rather
than
letting
ourselves
get
deflected
onto
a
series
of
facts
(or
statistics)
that
help
us
“voyage
a
little
past
the
emotions,”
means
to
stay
with
Kau-
jak’s
death
as
Sakiassie
does,
to
feel
the
ways
we
too
remain
connected
to
her,
through
the
images
her
grandson
gives
us.
Thus
it
is
that
Kaujak’s
image
takes
hold
of
me,
registering
the
knowledge
that
we
are
the
kinds
of
beings
that
die,
and
that
sometimes
even
at
the
moment
of
death
we
can
be
misrecognized,
dismissed
as
an
animal,
or—perhaps
even
worse—dismissed
as
a
fact.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Life Beside Itself
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue: Between Two Women
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Facts and Images
- 2. Cooperating
- 3. Anonymous Care
- 4. Life-of-the-Name
- 5. Why Two Clocks?
- 6. Song
- Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam
- Notes
- References
- List of Illustrations
- Index
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