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    The Anthropologist as Writer : Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330193
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    Pages: 288 p.
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    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres -- Helena Wulff -- PART I: THE ROLE OF WRITING IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREERS -- Chapter 1. The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today -- Dominic Boyer -- Chapter 2. Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy -- Don Brenneis -- Chapter 3. O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals -- Sverker Finnström -- Chapter 4. The Craft of Editing: Anthropology's Prose and Qualms -- Brian Moeran -- Chapter 5. The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges -- Máiréad Nic Craith -- PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- Chapter 6. The Anthropologist as Storyteller -- Alma Gottlieb -- Chapter 7. Writing for the Future -- Paul Stoller -- Chapter 8. Life-writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential -- Narmala Halstead -- Chapter 9. Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse -- Kirin Narayan -- PART III: REACHING OUT: POPULAR WRITING AND JOURNALISM -- Chapter 10. On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of The Second File -- Anette Nyqvist -- Chapter 11. The Writer as Anthropologist -- Oscar Hemer -- Chapter 12. Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists -- Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Vincent Manoharan, Urmila Devi, Jussi Eskola and Swarna Sabrina Francis -- PART IV: WRITING ACROSS GENRES -- Chapter 13. Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision -- Nigel Rapport -- Chapter 14. On Timely Appearances: Anthropology, Art, Literature -- Mattias Viktorin -- Chapter 15. Digital Narratives in Anthropology -- Paula Uimonen -- Chapter 16. Writing Otherwise -- Ulf Hannerz -- Index --
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    Reflecting on Reflexivity : The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise (2016)
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    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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    Our Common Denominator : Human Universals Revisited (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330940
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    Pages: 364 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals-that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Humankind: Current Societal Debates -- -- Universal Postulates Everywhere! -- Popular Universality in Visual Media: "The Family of Man" -- Normative Universalism -- -- Chapter 2. A World of Cultures: Their Differences and Likenesses -- -- Finding Patterns in Diversity: George Peter Murdock and Donald Edward Brown -- Universals as Subject Matter: Concept, Terms and Metaphors -- Universals do matter: The Relevance of Universals in General and for Cultural Studies -- Universals in Cultural Anthropology Today: the forgotten Half in the Science of Humanity -- -- Chapter 3. Cultures and Human Nature: Human Beings are biologically Cultural -- -- The Nexus of Intra-cultural Diversity and Universals -- Human Nature and the Proper Image of Who We Are -- Homo sapiens: Uniqueness versus Special Status -- -- Chapter 4. Universals: Examples from Several Realms -- -- Qualifying Remarks -- Narration and Expressive Culture -- Sociality -- Worldview and Images of Humanity -- Rituals and Beliefs -- Cognition and Knowledge -- Languages and Speaking -- Behavior and Experience -- Gender, Sexuality and Social Reproduction -- -- Chapter 5. Methods: Deduction, Case Studies and Comparison -- -- Finding Potential Candidates and Deducing from Theory -- Case Studies: Testing Postulated Universals -- Concepts beyond Cultural Bias? -- Inventories of Universals -- Evaluating Lists of Universals and Holistic Forms of Representation -- Cross-cultural Comparison -- Cross-species Comparison -- -- Chapter 6. Taxonomy: The Forms, Levels and Depth of Universals -- -- Levels, Spheres and Time Frame -- Substance and Depth -- Degree of Universality -- Conditional Universals and other Specific Forms -- Relations between basic Anthropological Orientations -- -- Chapter 7. Toward Explanation: Why do Universals exist? -- -- Ten Pitfalls in Research and in Anti-universalism -- Systematics of Explanatory Approaches -- Cultural Contact: Universals through Cultural Transfer and Diffusion -- Function, Convergence and Structural Implication: Emerging Universals through Real-Life Circumstances -- Evolution: Universals Based on Adaptation -- Complex Causes -- -- Chapter 8. Critical Positions: Arguments against Universalism -- -- Reification, Hidden Syllogisms and Implicit Primitivity -- Relativist and Empirical Criticisms -- Fundamental Criticism: Charges of Eurocentrism and Hegemony -- -- Chapter 9. Synthesis: Human Universals and the Human Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Regimes of Ignorance : Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782388395
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 222 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 29
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction -- Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley -- Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing -- Carlo Caduff -- Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia -- Christos Lynteris -- Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers -- Trevor H. J. Marchand -- Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia -- Casey High -- Chapter 5. What Do Child Sex Offenders Know? -- John Borneman -- Chapter 6. Problematic Reproductions: Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa -- Roy Dilley -- Chapter 7. Power and Ignorance in British India: The Native Fetish of the Crown -- Leo Coleman -- Chapter 8. Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other -- Thomas G. Kirsch -- Notes on Contributors --
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    Thinking Through Sociality : An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782385868
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 210 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are "good to think with." Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction:Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-Level Concepts -- Vered Amit with Sally Anderson, Virginia Caputo, John Postill, Deborah Reed-Danahay, and Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- Chapter 1. Disjuncture: The Creativity of, and Breaks in, Everyday Associations and Routines -- Vered Amit -- Chapter 2. Fields: Dynamic Configurations of Practices, Games and Socialities -- John Postill -- Chapter 3. Social Space: Distance, Proximity, and Thresholds of Affinity -- Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Chapter 4. Sociability: The Art of Form -- Sally Anderson -- Chapter 5. Organizations: From Corporations to Ephemeral Associations -- Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- Chapter 6. Network: The Possibilities and Mobilizations of Connections -- Vered Amit and Virginia Caputo -- Epilogue: Sociality and Uncertainty: Between Avowing and Disavowing Concepts in Anthropology -- Nigel Rapport -- Notes on Contributors --
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    Extraordinary Encounters : Authenticity and the Interview (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782385905
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    Pages: 212 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 28
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated. The interview possesses its own authenticity, therefore-true to the persons involved and true to their moment of interaction-whilst at the same time providing information on human capacities and proclivities that is generalizable beyond particular social and cultural contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Interview as Analytical Category -- James Staples and Katherine Smith -- Chapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing 'Life and Times' -- Pat Caplan -- Chapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical Approach -- Isak Niehaus -- Chapter 3. An 'Up and Down Life': Understanding Leprosy through Biography -- James Staples -- Chapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured Interview -- Katherine Smith -- Chapter 5. 'Different Times' and Other 'Altermodern' Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic 'Wanderings' -- Angels Trias i Valls -- Chapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become Relevant -- Judith Okley -- Chapter 7. Talking and Acting for Our Rights: The Interview in an Action-research Setting -- Ana Lopes -- Epilogue: Extraordinary Encounter? The Interview as an Ironical Moment -- Nigel Rapport -- Notes on Contributors --
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    What Is Existential Anthropology? (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386377
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    Pages: 254 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and event, Piette has drawn on Heidegger's Dasein-analysis, and developed a phenomenographical method for the observation and description of human beings in their singularity and ever-changing situations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Anthropology and the Existential Turn -- Michael Jackson and Albert Piette -- Chapter 1. Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique -- Devaka Premawardhana -- Chapter 2. Both/And -- Michael Lambek -- Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia -- Mattijs Van de Port -- Chapter 4. The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in a Disjointed World -- Hans Lucht -- Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee -- Sónia Silva -- Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being -- Michael Jackson -- Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality and Believing -- Albert Piette -- Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence: An existential reading of Michael Jackson and Albert Piette. -- Laurent Denizeau -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric : The Texture of Political Action (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782387473
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    Pages: 274 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 7
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society's capacity for political action.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Robert Hariman -- Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression -- David Boromisza-Habashi -- Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia -- Andrew Graan -- Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy's Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo -- Naser Miftari -- Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy -- Robert Danisch -- Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic -- Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson -- Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing -- Catherine Fennell -- Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption -- Eleftheria J. Lekakis -- Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia -- Felix Girke -- Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World -- Christian Meyer -- Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art -- Monica Westin -- Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the "Turn" to Catastrophe -- Ralph Cintron -- Contributors -- Index --
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