Karin Andriolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 629154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Andriolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Andriolo |
| SIGNATURE | ANDRIOLO K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Twice-Killed
The inspiration I take from J. M. Coetzee's book Elizabeth Costello (2003) is his advocacy of imagining as an alternative to rational thought. Imagining, as I understand him, is mindwork that engages the body as an experiential and metaphorical site. I apply this notion of imagining to suicides conducted in the service of political protest: The fatal hunger strike of ten prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981 and Jan Palach's self-immolation in Pr…
Why Read about the Old Masters
Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp
Murder by Suicide
Suicide terrorism and other operations that consume the killer's life employ beliefs and practices intended to reconcile the killer with his or her own death. This article reviews three episodes from Muslim history: the Assassins of Syria and Persia, juramentado in the Philippines, and Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala. Each of these episodes manifests a different symbolic stratagem: the neutralization of transition anxiety, the sacrificial fusion of…
On power in egalitarian societies
The Twice-Killed
The inspiration I take from J. M. Coetzee's book Elizabeth Costello (2003) is his advocacy of imagining as an alternative to rational thought. Imagining, as I understand him, is mindwork that engages the body as an experiential and metaphorical site. I apply this notion of imagining to suicides conducted in the service of political protest: The fatal hunger strike of ten prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981 and Jan Palach's self-immolation in Pr…
Murder by Suicide
Suicide terrorism and other operations that consume the killer's life employ beliefs and practices intended to reconcile the killer with his or her own death. This article reviews three episodes from Muslim history: the Assassins of Syria and Persia, juramentado in the Philippines, and Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala. Each of these episodes manifests a different symbolic stratagem: the neutralization of transition anxiety, the sacrificial fusion of…
Why Read about the Old Masters
Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp
On power in egalitarian societies
Why Read about the Old Masters
Categories and Classifications: Maussian Reflections on the Social. N. J. Allen. Methodology and History in Anthropology, vol. 6. David Parkin, series ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 172 pp.Durkheim Reconsidered. Susan Stedman Jones. Oxford: Polity, 2001. 288 pp
Murder by Suicide
Suicide terrorism and other operations that consume the killer's life employ beliefs and practices intended to reconcile the killer with his or her own death. This article reviews three episodes from Muslim history: the Assassins of Syria and Persia, juramentado in the Philippines, and Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala. Each of these episodes manifests a different symbolic stratagem: the neutralization of transition anxiety, the sacrificial fusion of…
The Twice-Killed
The inspiration I take from J. M. Coetzee's book Elizabeth Costello (2003) is his advocacy of imagining as an alternative to rational thought. Imagining, as I understand him, is mindwork that engages the body as an experiential and metaphorical site. I apply this notion of imagining to suicides conducted in the service of political protest: The fatal hunger strike of ten prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981 and Jan Palach's self-immolation in Pr…
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