Anthropology and Responsibility (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Demian, Melissa; Lynteris, Christos; Fumanti, Mattia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000859546
• Artikelnr.: 67420480

Autorenporträt

Melissa Demian is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Mattia Fumanti is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anthropology and responsibility
Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris
1 Edgy imaginaries: "Ghost'"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a
plantation landscape
Liana Chua
2 The responsibility to consume: Excessive 'environmentourism' against
rhinoceros extinction in South Africa
Stasja Koot
3 Responsibility versus responsibilization: Mafiacraft, witchcraft and the
rise of conspiracy thinking today
Peter Geschiere
4. In the wake of disenchantment: Silence and the limits of ethnographic
attentiveness
Yana Stainova
5 The vulnerability vortex: Health, exclusion, and social responsibility
David Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann
6 Keeping things under control: Responsibilities towards things, homes,
people in hoarding disorder
Rebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt
7 Racialized positionalities: Ethnographic responsibility and the
anthropology of racism and white supremacy
Sofía Ugarte
8 Of Calcutta, death and the South: Juxtaposing three Calcuttas/Kolkatas
Debarun Sarkar
9 The countess' diaries and taonga M¿ori: Twenty-first century
collaborations around nineteenth century collecting
Kirsty Kernohan
10 Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment"
Joel White