After Ethnos
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781478000617 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 30 Nov 2018 |
DEWEY: | 301 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 192 |
Weight: | 392g |
Height: | 163mm |
Width: | 240mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |