After ethnos / / Tobias Rees

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476758103321
• Autore: Rees Tobias
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-4780-0228-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Classificazione: LB 29000
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetti: Anthropology; Anthropology - Philosophy; Ethnology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.