After Ethnos

• Tác giả: Tobias Rees
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1478002284
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 301 Sociology and anthropology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 208455
• Chủ đề: 1. Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

Tóm tắt

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 After Ethnos Tobias Rees 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 Rees'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.