Theoretical anthropology or how to observe a human being / Albert Piette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piette, Albert, 1960- author.

Series:

Science, society and new technologies series

Research, innovative theories and methods in social sciences and humanities set ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Theory: Observing the Human Volume p. 1

1.1 Volume and voluments p. 1

1.2 The entirety of a volume and the density of presence p. 9

1.3 Difference and separation p. 20

1.4 Volumuation and continuity p. 28

1.5 Lessereity p. 47

Chapter 2 Illustrating: Drawings of Theory p. 57

2.1 Drawings and contraspective p. 57

2.2 Focusing on the human figure p. 64

2.2.1 Putting into perspective p. 65

2.2.2 Separation p. 67

2.2.3 Focusing on the volume p. 68

2.2.4 Rays p. 69

2.2.5 Voluments p. 71

2.2.6 Consistency and style p. 72

2.2.7 Volugrams p. 73

2.2.8 Peripheral gestures, presence and absence p. 74

Chapter 3 Debates: Anthropology and the Human Entity p. 79

3.1 Experience and existence p. 81

3.2 Going beyond, wrenching and eccentricity p. 92

3.3 Lines and flow p. 99

3.4 Intersubjectivity p. 107

3.5 Perspections of the individual p. 115

Chapter 4 Further Development: Structural Existantism p. 125

4.1 Lévi-Strauss and the difficult ambition of anthropology p. 125

4.2 A structural approach and the human volume p. 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1786304139

9781786304131

OCLC:

1090854643