ISBN:
9780415169660
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Transcendent Individual : Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements over and against culture in favour of individuality.Rapport draws widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials bringing into the debate a range of voices, among them Nietzsche, Wilde, George Steiner, Richard Rorty, John
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Manifesto Towards a liberal and literary appreciation of the conscious and creative individual; Writing Individual Knowledge and Personal Relations Eschewing the paths to impersonalisation; 'Going Meta' Structure and creativity; Individual Narratives 'Writing' as a mode of thought which gives meaning to experience; Movement and Identity Narrations of 'home' in a world in motion; ~Surely Everything Has Already Been Said About Malinowski's Diary!~; Writing Fieldnotes On the conventionalities of note-taking and taking note, local and academic
Description / Table of Contents:
Domino Worlds At home on the dominoes-table in WanetHard-sell or Mumbling ~Right~ Rudely The hold of conversation: the power of discursive surfaces; Discourse and Creativity Sheikh Alwan: Fathalla: Sid Askrig; Individual Morality Between liberalism, anthropology and biology; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
