Open AccessGESTURES OF CARE AND RECOGNITION: An Introduction
Author(s) -
CUBELLIS LAUREN
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca35.1.01
Subject(s) - gesture , ethnography , representation (politics) , object (grammar) , work (physics) , sociology , linguistics , psychology , communication , anthropology , political science , philosophy , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , politics
ABSTRACT This collection of essays offers an exploration of care as a gesture of recognition. As both object of inquiry and ethnographic representation, care is examined as the work of discerning and representing traces. The introduction and subsequent essays grapple with the work of writing about absent others, and how the anthropological endeavor might itself be considered a form of care.