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Biopolitics is not, as is often thought, a politics which has life for its object, but rather it is restricted to the regulation of population. Biopolitcis is not only a question of governmentality and technologies, but also of meaning and values.

Biopolitics is politics which deals with the lives of human beings.

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The Body is not only that through which one apprehends the world in the present, but is also where the past is both objectively and subjectively enshrined.

Humanitarian reason is a kind of reason that overlooks larger social, structural, and political conditions in favor of xx.

Morality is not the establishment of values or the distinction of right from wrong but rather the development of norms in a given historical and geographical context, which is accessible to ethnological investigation.

The Politics of life is politics that give specific value and meaning to human life and existence.

Trauma is a narrative which has emerged into a powerful force in the world, the anthropological stance toward which is to explore how ideas emerge in a society and come to be seen as true, and to examine what follows from that truth, without asking whether those ideas are in fact true.