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Anthropological Perspectives on Care

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In the course of the last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social sciences. A growing amount of literature is now focusing on the intersection of work, gender, ethnicity, affect, and mobility regimes. In anthropology and sociology, in political science, psychology, gender studies, education, gerontology, disability studies, and nursing studies, care is a relevant and timely tool for examining the multiple dimensions of the distribution of gendered and generation-specific care, both within societies and around the globe.

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Drotbohm, H., Alber, E. (2015). Introduction. In: Alber, E., Drotbohm, H. (eds) Anthropological Perspectives on Care. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137513441_1

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