Titlebook: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course; Cathrine Degnen Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9388-1Is personhood only for the living or is it a question for the dead too? These are key questions of this monograph, introduced here and set in the broader context of the study of personhood in anthropology. This chapter argues that whilst answers to these questions of personhood vary cross-culturally

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Wachstumsstrategien in der Medienbrancheten perceived as liminal beings and not fully human persons for some period of time. Explored here are the ways in which the biological and the social are co-constitutive in regard to personhood, and the processual ways in which personhood is attributed and made. As well as looking at naming, feedin

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Grundlagen der Vertriebssteuerung,ly and culturally troubling boundaries between life and death, states of being what Degnen calls “endangered personhood”. These include brain death, dementia, and forms of disordered consciousness such as persistent vegetative state. All generate sharp questions around the nature of consciousness, i

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