Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses.
Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses.
Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh, eds.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh vii 1. Ajàlá's Head: Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting / Michael Jackson 27 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology / Didier Fassin 50 3. The Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary / Clara Han 71 4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory / João Biehl 94 5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matters / Arthur Kleinman 119 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers / Ghassan Hage 138 7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought / Bhrigupati Singh 159 8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer 188 9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology / Michael Pruett 218 10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton 234 11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles / Vincent Crapanzano 254 12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events / Veena Das 279 References 307 Contributors 329 Index
Acknowledgments Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh vii 1. Ajàlá's Head: Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting / Michael Jackson 27 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology / Didier Fassin 50 3. The Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary / Clara Han 71 4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory / João Biehl 94 5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matters / Arthur Kleinman 119 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers / Ghassan Hage 138 7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought / Bhrigupati Singh 159 8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer 188 9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology / Michael Pruett 218 10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton 234 11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles / Vincent Crapanzano 254 12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events / Veena Das 279 References 307 Contributors 329 Index
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