Negotiating Personal Autonomy: Communication and Personhood in East Greenland

ISBN-13: 9781138068551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 250 str.

Sophie Cacilie Elixhauser

Opis

Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in East Greenland is characterized by relationships based upon careful respect of personal autonomy. She asserts that a person in East Greenland is a highly permeable entity that is neither bounded by the body nor even necessarily human. In so doing, she also puts forward a new a new approach to the anthropological study of communication. The book will be of interest to scholars of the Arctic, Greenland, anthropology, and human geography. Its analysis of the self in East Greenland will be of interest to scholars working on the self across the humanities and social sciences.

O autorze

Sophie Elixhauser is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests include human–environmental relations and interpersonal communication in East Greenland, and the human dimensions of climate and environmental changes in the European Alps. She currently works in the field of migration in Munich, Germany.