After Ethnos Tobias Rees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rees, Tobias, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2018

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478090854

1478090855

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002284

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online accesss