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Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daena Aki FunahashiPublish date:2023-04-15Pages:222
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501768088ISBN-10:1501768085UPC:9781501768088Book Category:Social Science, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, EuropeBook Topic:Physical, Nordic CountriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCWYWYGSH5

Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the point of pathological stress?

Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on pressure, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress.

Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501768088ISBN-10:1501768085UPC:9781501768088Book Category:Social Science, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, EuropeBook Topic:Physical, Nordic CountriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCWYWYGSH5

Daena Funahashi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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