After ethnos
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Rees Tobias ;
- Editeurs : Durham [C.] London Duke University Press ;
- Date d'édition : 2018
- ISBN : 978-1-4780-0061-7, 978-1-4780-0080-8
- Sujets : Anthropologie -- Philosophie, Ethnologie, Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie)
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii, 174 p.), : Couv. ill., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version électronique ; Notes bibliogr.. Bibliogr. p. [151]-168. Index
Résumé
La 4e de couv. indique : 'For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others -- of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography -- as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being -- has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In this book, the author endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography -- and the human from society and culture -- and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from the author's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us'