After Ethnos Hardback
by Tobias Rees
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 3 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781478000617
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 3 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478000617