LEADER 02713nam 22004693 450 001 996571852103316 005 20240115084507.0 010 $a1-5017-7158-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501771583 035 $a(CKB)28808862600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7192482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7192482 035 $a(DE-B1597)666954 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501771583 035 $a(OCoLC)1370009354 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928808862600041 100 $a20240115d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeyond Description $eAnthropologies of Explanation 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2023. 210 4$d©2023. 215 $a1 online resource (263 pages) 311 $a1-5017-7157-4 330 $aBeyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge. By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 610 $apolitical phenomenon, post-truth, cognitive therapy, empirical questions, ethnographic studies, examinations, anthropology, epistemological questions, philosophy, sociology, epistemology, interpretation, social analysis. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. 676 $a306.01 700 $aHeywood$b Paolo$01461384 701 $aCandea$b Matei$01107877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996571852103316 996 $aBeyond Description$93667382 997 $aUNISA