After ethnos
by Rees, Tobias
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 …
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (174 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781478090854, 1478090855, 9781478002284, 147800228X
- oclc:on1026246124
- LC Classification:GN33
- Dewey Decimal:301
Table of Contents
Introduction : All of it -- 1. On anthropology (free from ethnos) -- 2. "Of" the human (after "the human") -- 3. On fieldwork (itself) -- 4. On the actual (rather than the emergent) -- 5. Coda (a dictionary of anthropological commonplaces)
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