Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood and Power

PART I Introduction
The anthropology of Suicide: ethnography and the Tension of agency
Daniel Münster and Ludek Broz

PART II Suicide, Personhood and Relationality
Personhood, agency and Suicide in a neo-Liberalizing South India
James Staples

The Lonely un-dead and Returning Suicide in northwest Greenland
Janne Flora

Between demons and disease: Suicide and agency in Yucatan, Mexico
Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster

Four Funerals and a Wedding: Suicide, Sacrifice, and (non-)Human agency in a Siberian Village
Ludek Broz

PART III Self-Destruction and Power: Bodies, Resistance and Crises
Farmers’ Suicide and the Moral economy of agriculture: Victimhood, Voice, and agro-environmental Responsibility in South India
Daniel Münster

Dying to Live in Palestine: Steadfastness, Pollution and Embodied Space
Deen Sharp and Natalia Linos

Accumulating Death: Women’s Moral Agency and Domestic Economies of Care in South India
Jocelyn Chua

Learning Suicide and the Limits of Agency: Children’s “Suicide Play” in Sri Lanka
Tom Widger

Suicide, Agency and the Limits of Power
Katrina Jaworski

PART IV Afterword
Afterword: Taking Relationality to Extremes 
Marilyn Strathern

Index