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The ground between : anthropologists engage philosophy /Veena Das

By: Veena Das ; Michael Jackson ; Arthur Kleinman ; Bhrigupati SinghContributor(s): Michael Jackson; Arthur Kleinman; Bhrigupati SinghMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi :Orient BlackSwan ,2014Description: viii, 351 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9788125055006Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Anthropology -- Philosophy.DDC classification: 301.01 DAS

Contents:

Ajala's heads : reflections on anthropology and philosophy in a West African setting / Michael Jackson -- The parallel lives of philosophy and anthropology / Didier Fassin -- The difficulty of kindness : boundaries, time, and the ordinary / Clara Han -- Ethnography in the way of theory / João Biehl -- The search for wisdom : why William James still matters / Arthur Kleinman -- Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers / Ghassan Hage -- How concepts make the world look different : affirmative and negative genealogies of thought / Bhrigupati Singh -- Philosophia and anthropologia: reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Ritual disjunctions : ghosts, philosophy, and anthropology / Michael Puett -- Henri Bergson in highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton -- Must we be bad epistemologists? Illusions of transparency, the opaque other, and interpretive foibles / Vincent Crapanzano -- Action, expression, and everyday life : recounting household events / Veena Das.

Summary: Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses

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Ajala's heads : reflections on anthropology and philosophy in a West African setting / Michael Jackson --
The parallel lives of philosophy and anthropology / Didier Fassin --
The difficulty of kindness : boundaries, time, and the ordinary / Clara Han --
Ethnography in the way of theory / João Biehl --
The search for wisdom : why William James still matters / Arthur Kleinman --
Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers / Ghassan Hage --
How concepts make the world look different : affirmative and negative genealogies of thought / Bhrigupati Singh --
Philosophia and anthropologia: reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M.J. Fischer --
Ritual disjunctions : ghosts, philosophy, and anthropology / Michael Puett --
Henri Bergson in highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton --
Must we be bad epistemologists? Illusions of transparency, the opaque other, and interpretive foibles / Vincent Crapanzano --
Action, expression, and everyday life : recounting household events / Veena Das.

Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses

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