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Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice

Paperback • 2017 • English

Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice

By Andrew Irving

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About the book

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations...Show more

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ISBN

9780997367515

Publisher

HAU

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Art of Life and Death - Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice

Format

Paperback

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