Recovering the human subject : freedom, creativity, and decision / edited by James Laidlaw, Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laidlaw, James, editor.

Bodenhorn, Barbara, 1946- editor.

Holbraad, Martin, editor.

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Philosophical anthropology.

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad, and James Laidlaw: Introduction: Freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering the human subject

Caroline Humphrey: Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times

Part I. Decision

Veena Das: On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary

Lars Hojer: Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia

Agnieszka Halemba: Apparitions of the virgin mary as decision-events

Part II. Freedom

Morten Axel Pedersen Incidental Connections: Freedom and urban life in Mongolia

Katherine Swancutt & Jiarimuji : the return to slavery' nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China

Creativity

Matei Candea: Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds

Joel Robbins: Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

ISBN:

9781108424967

1108424961

9781108441056

110844105X

OCLC:

1005734094

Publisher Number:

99976364224