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Seeing Like a Child - (Thinking from Elsewhere) by Clara Han

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  • Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist AnthropologyFinalist, 2022 Victor Turner PrizeAn utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.
  • About the Author: Clara Han (Author) Clara Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
  • 208 Pages
  • Social Science, Anthropology
  • Series Name: Thinking from Elsewhere

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An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to reexamine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.



Book Synopsis



Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist Anthropology
Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.

Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child's perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents--to Korea and to the Korean language--allowing her, as she explains, to find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the child inhabits her everyday life.

Seeing Like a Child offers readers a unique experience--an intimate engagement with the emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass displacement and death--inviting us to explore categories such as "catastrophe," "war," "violence," and "kinship" in a brand-new light.



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"Seeing Like a Child is an extraordinary book, bursting with critical insight and affective power. Han vividly explores how war and migration are dispersed into a domestic life marked by small corrosions, devastating loss, and tiny solidarities. Courageously probing the plasticity of self and lifeworld, the anthropologist illuminates the fragile but deeply meaningful yearnings of her family's memorable characters. A must read."--João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

"With this deeply moving intimate history, Clara Han reclaims an important legacy of modern anthropology, its capacity to connect the personal with the world-historical. Seeing Like a Child is an audacious attempt to restore kinship as a vital category in historical and political inquiry and a must read for anyone interested in discovering how much of the world is involved in bringing up a child."--Heonik Kwon, author of After the Korean War: An Intimate History

In this deeply moving narrative, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents whose migrations--from the North to the South of Korea and then to the United States--frayed familial ties. At the same time, she writes as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents--to Korea and to the Korean language--allowing her to find and found kinship relationships broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the child inhabits her everyday life.

Clara Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.



Review Quotes




With this deeply moving intimate history, Clara Han reclaims an important legacy of modern anthropology, its capacity to connect the personal with the world-historical. Seeing Like a Child is an audacious attempt to restore kinship as a vital category in historical and political inquiry and a must-read for anyone interested in discovering how much of the world is involved in bringing up a child.---Heonik Kwon, author of After the Korean War: An Intimate History

Seeing Like a Child is an extraordinary book, bursting with critical insight and affective power. Han vividly explores how war and migration are dispersed into a domestic life marked by small corrosions, devastating loss, and tiny solidarities. Courageously probing the plasticity of self and lifeworld, the anthropologist illuminates the fragile but deeply meaningful yearnings of her family's memorable characters. A must-read.---João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

Through the metaphor of Seeing Like a Child, Clara Han reveals like no one before her the strength of this social construction between identity, memory, and self-consciousness in ordinary life.---Richard Rechtman, from the Foreword



About the Author



Clara Han (Author)
Clara Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile (2012) and co-editor of Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium (2015).

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .45 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Anthropology
Series Title: Thinking from Elsewhere
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Clara Han
Language: English
Street Date: December 1, 2020
TCIN: 83282816
UPC: 9780823289462
Item Number (DPCI): 247-55-1095
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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