The Inheritance

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Published by Duke University Press 2021

The Inheritance

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478021346

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About this book

The Inheritance is anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli's graphic memoir in which she explores her family's history and the events, traumas, and social structures that define our individual and collective pasts and futures.

Author / Editor information

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Her most recent book is Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“With the understanding of a scholar and the storytelling instincts of a novelist, Elizabeth A. Povinelli has brought a rare degree of scope and insight to the graphic memoir form. Relatively few illustrated works are so complex and insightful, so intricately concerned with families, nationalities, and politics. An extraordinary book.”

-- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

“A melancholy yet often darkly funny reflection on the intersections of biography, geography, kinship, and history, The Inheritance is a genuinely original work that made an impact on this reader and will leave a lasting mark on the field.”

-- Naisargi N. Dave, author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

"An inspired use of the graphic format to weave a narrative with a power beyond words alone." (Starred Review)

-- Kirkus Reviews

"This book is memoir, art, and anthropology, as it cleverly addresses the interplay between individual lives and collective experiences, thus inviting a more open and associative mode of interpretation than most academic monographs.… This text handles complex and contested social themes through sparing text and provocative imagery and as such is a unique contribution to the conversation on the legacies of European immigration to the United States."

-- Caroline DeVane Europe Now

"This is a fascinating study of family persona and their changing relationships, but it is not just an engaging family history. The book is also an analysis of the historical context, 'the patterns of violence, dislocation, racism and structural inequality' (p. xi) that shape US society."

-- Louise Lamphere Journal of Anthropological Research

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 331

eBook

Published: February 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781478021346