UID:
almafu_9960117910202883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-63903-8
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1-108-60500-1
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1-108-69232-X
Content:
This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and 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, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018).
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-42496-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108605007
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