ISBN:
9781782387534
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
324 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
Abstract:
Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other-anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume's Preface, Introduction, and Postscript-it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes-definitively, albeit relatively-the being and becoming of the human.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts -- Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood -- Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts -- SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS -- Chapter 1. Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity -- Terry Evens -- Chapter 2. The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field -- Don Handelman -- Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Non-Locality of Ritual Meaning -- Koenraad Stroeken -- Chapter 4. Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer -- Christopher Roberts -- SECTION II: REFLEXIVITY, PRACTICE, AND EMBODIMENT -- Chapter 5. Wittgensetin's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse -- Horacio Ortiz -- Chapter 6. Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity -- Paul Schissel -- Chapter 7. Perfect Praxis in Akidō-A Reflexive Body-Self -- Einat Bar-On Cohen -- SECTION III: REFLEXIVITY, SELF, AND OTHER -- Chapter 8. Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader -- Paul Clough -- Chapter 9. Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking -- René Devisch -- SECTION IV: REFLEXIVITY, DEMOCRACY, AND GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 10. The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies -- Yaron Ezrahi -- Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science -- Terry Evens -- Index --
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