Anthropology and responsibility / edited by Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demian, Melissa, editor.

Fumanti, Mattia, editor.

Lynteris, Christos, editor.

Series:

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological ethics.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

216 pages. 216 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists' collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory, ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to a better understanding of responsibility, including the 'responsibility of anthropology' and the responsibility of anthropologists to specific others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : anthropology and responsibility / Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris

Edgy imaginaries : "ghost'"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a plantation landscape / Liana Chua

The responsibility to consume : excessive 'environmentourism' against rhinoceros extinction in South Africa / Stasja Koot

Responsibility versus responsibilization : from "mafiacraft" and "witchcraft" to conspiracy thinking today / Peter Geschiere

In the wake of disenchantment : silence and the limits of ethnographic attentiveness / Yana Stainova

The vulnerability vortex : health, exclusion, and social responsibility / David Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann

Keeping things under control : responsibilities towards things, homes, people in hoarding disorder / Rebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt

Racialized positionalities : ethnographic responsibility and the study of racism and white supremacy / Sofía Ugarte

Of Calcutta, death and the South : juxtaposing three Calcuttas/Kolkatas / Debarun Sarkar

The countess' diaries and taonga Māori : twenty-first century collaborations around nineteenth century collecting / Kirsty Kernohan

Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment" / Joel White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anthropology and responsibility

ISBN:

9781032283807

1032283807

9781032364544

1032364548

OCLC:

1347260750