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Ethnographies of Social Support

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  1. Markus Schlecker

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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  2. Friederike Fleischer

    1. CUNY Graduate Center, USA
      Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

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Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining relatedness and sharing feelings, rather than preventing or patching up problems. This book helps correct the dominant framework of deliberate action.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Markus Schlecker
    Pages 1-15

  3. Housing Support for the “Undeserving”: Moral Hazard, Fires, and Laissez-Faire in Hong Kong

    • Alan Smart
    Pages 17-37

  4. “Who will love you if they have to look after you?”: Sakhalin Koreans Caring from a Distance

    • Dorota Szawarska
    Pages 39-58

  5. Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/AIDS Support Groups in South Africa

    • Marian Burchardt
    Pages 59-80

  6. The Changing Scale of Imprisonment and the Transformation of Care: The Erosion of the “Welfare Society” by the “Penal State” in Contemporary Portugal

    • Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha
    Pages 81-101

  7. The Compassion of Strangers: Intimate Encounters with Assistance in Moscow

    • Melissa L. Caldwell
    Pages 103-120

  8. Young Chinese Volunteers: Self/Interest, Altruism, and Moral Models

    • Friederike Fleischer
    Pages 121-139

  9. Engagements and Interruptions: Mapping Emotion at an Athenian Asylum Advocacy NGO

    • Heath Cabot
    Pages 141-159

  10. Life, Labor, and Merit: War Martyrdom as Support Encounters in Late Socialist Vietnam

    • Markus Schlecker
    Pages 161-175

  11. Empathy, Salvation, and Religious Identity: Hindu Religious Movements and Humanitarian Action in India

    • Frederique Pagani
    Pages 177-194

  12. Epilogue

    • Bartholomew Dean
    Pages 195-211

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-217
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Markus Schlecker

  • CUNY Graduate Center, USA

    Friederike Fleischer

  • Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Friederike Fleischer

About the editors

Marian Burchardt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany Heath Cabot, College of the Atlantic, USA Melissa L. Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal Bartholomew Dean, University of Kansas, USA Frédérique Pagani, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, France Alan Smart, University of Calgary, Canada Dorota Szawarska, University of Warsaw, Poland

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