Ryoko Nishii is a professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She holds a PhD in literature. Her specialties and interests are anthropological fieldwork, ethnography of affect and the anthropology of death.
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AffectusNISHII Ryoko, YANAI Tadashi
We are constantly being influenced and acted up...We are constantly being influenced and acted upon by various people, creatures and things, in other words, by beings outside our bodies. Taking Spinoza’s concept of ‘Affectus’ as a base, this book ...
