تبدیل شدن: رویکردی انسان‌شناسانه برای درک فرد در جاوا

'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' falls within the long-standing tradition of anthropological theorising regarding the person, and takes inspiration from the philosophical writings of G. Deleuze. It comprises a critical intervention in the said literatures, develops new conceptual tools and reconfigures 'old' methodological strategies. As a thought experiment, it foregrounds and advances the concept of the 'diaphoron' person - a person who constantly differs from him/herself and who is always already involved in an unlimited process of becoming - as a new figure for considering the problem of the subject in anthropology. In addition, the book breathes new life into one of the most distinctive methodological strategies to be found in anthropology since its inception, re-invigorating the approach of 'total ethnography' in such a way that it is able to meet the challenges posed by living in a postmodern world. [NP] The volume is also an ethnographic monograph based upon qualitative research undertaken in the town of Probolinggo in East Java, Indonesia. It is the first book-length ethnographic study of this part of Java and its peoples, who identify themselves as 'mixed persons'. The volume not only serves as a source of new ethnographic data about a place and a situation we know very little about, but it also re-thinks key categories of Javanese ethnography from a new and unanticipated perspective Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java CONTENTS LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PROLEGOMENON Subjects as motion Becoming Chapter 1 THE BECOMING OF PLACE: MOVING, CLEARING, INHABITING The unity of the beginning The diversity of poverty The civility of emplacement Becoming-place Chapter 2 THE PERCEPTION OF DIFFERENCE: EMBODYING, REVERSING, ENCOMPASSING Kinds of bodies The flesh of the social Origins, originals and ruptures The corporeal and the phenomenal Sensible distinctions Reversibility and the diaphoron person Living hierarchy The fabric Chapter 3 THE BLOOD OF AFFINITY: MARRYING, PROCREATING, HOUSING Disjunctive synthesis The House Incestuous affines Becoming-siblings The ‘nature’ of siblingship Moving parts A manifold of manifestations Chapter 4 MATTERS OF SCALE: FEEDING, PRAYING, SHARING A topography of relations Vitality for the living Vitality for the dead Sound and sentiment Ex-changing scales Digesting the multitude The kampong Chapter 5 A PULSATING UNIVERSE: ANNIHILATING, ENHANCING, MAGNIFYING Intimate contractions The enlightenment of the enchanted Ambiguous animals Sets of four Reciprocal motions Chapter 6 THE MARITAL AND THE MARTIAL: GENDERING, KILLING, OSCILLATING Cross-regional perspectives Agency and affect Masculine and feminine bodies Androgyny ‘Chronicle of a death foretold’ Becoming-gendered EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Prolegomenon -- The Becoming Of Place : Moving, Clearing, Inhabiting -- The Perception Of Differnce : Embodying, Reversing, Encompassing -- The Blood Of Affinity : Marrying, Procreating, Housing -- Matters Of Scale : Feeding, Praying, Sharing -- A Pulsating Universe : Annihilating, Enhancing, Magnifying -- The Marital And The Martial : Gendering, Killing, Oscillating -- Epilogue. Konstantinos Retsikas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [193]-205) And Index. The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person