After ethnos / Tobias Rees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rees, Tobias, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 this book, the author 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 the author'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.

Contents:

All of it

On anthropology (free from ethnos)

Anthropology and philosophy (differently)

Philosophy/philosophy

Thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism)

Friction (the already thought and known)

Of the human (after "the human")

Cataloguing

Anti-humanism

A disregard for theory

No ontology

On the field (itself)

Difference(s) in time (assemblages)

Not history

Epochal (no more)

On the actual (rather than the emergent)

The new/different (of movement / in terms of movement)

Why and to what ends (philosophy, politics, poetry)

Coda: a dictionary of (anthropological) common places

One last question.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rees, Tobias. After ethnos.

ISBN:

9781478000617

1478000619

9781478000808

1478000805

OCLC:

1027730534