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"Cruel Attachments is wholly absorbing, in the sense that it is unputdownable, but also in the sense that it provides numerous occasions for what can feel like utterly contaminating, destabilizing emotional identifications: with victims, family members, therapists, prison guards, the anthropologist himself-and, however unnervingly, also perpetrators. It is no small feat to bring readers inside the emotional worlds of all these players. To have done so, and with such subtlety and nuance, is remarkable and unprecedented." (Dagmar Herzog, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780226233888, 978-0226233888
      ISBN10: 022623388X
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      Abnormal psychology Crime and criminology Social and cultural anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      9780226233888.

      Trade Review
      "Cruel Attachments is wholly absorbing, in the sense that it is unputdownable, but also in the sense that it provides numerous occasions for what can feel like utterly contaminating, destabilizing emotional identifications: with victims, family members, therapists, prison guards, the anthropologist himself-and, however unnervingly, also perpetrators. It is no small feat to bring readers inside the emotional worlds of all these players. To have done so, and with such subtlety and nuance, is remarkable and unprecedented." (Dagmar Herzog, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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