Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781350108325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 508 str.

Bubandt, Nils

Opis

This book is a "how-to" textbook in fieldwork-based analysis. Each chapter demonstrates how the ideas of a specific philosopher can be interrogatively applied to a concrete analytical case study. This accessible volume is a must-read for anthropology students and seasoned fieldworkers.

Spis treści

1. Philosophy on Fieldwork: Analysis as Bifocal Wonder, 2. Agamben and the Chinese Forced-Confession Ritual, 3. Arendt in the Lord’s Resistance Army and the ICC, 4. Austin and Pandemic Performativity: From Cholera to COVID-19, 5. Bataille and the “Mindfulness Revolution”, 6. Benjamin on the Trail of the Armenian Genocide, 7. Butler and Political (In)correctness, 8. Césaire in Cape Town: The Surreal Ethnography of Ocean Pollution and Social Media Fakery, 9. Confucius in a Self-Help Group, 10. Deleuze Attends an Art Festival on a Small, North Atlantic Island, 11. Derrida and the Death of My Mother in Buli, 12. Foucault Foments Fieldwork at the University, 13. Gadamer in Black Los Angeles, 14. Harman, a Prophet, a Church, a Name: A Portrait of Four Objects, 15. Heidegger and Freedom in the Anti-drug War Movement, 16. Husserlian Horizons: Moods in Yap, 17. Ibn Rushd / Averroës in Mexico City’s Kiosko Morisco, 18. Jabès amongst Songhay Sorcerers, 19. James and Radical Empiricism in Rural Indonesia, 20. Kopenawa and the Environmental Sciences in the Amazon, 21. Kristeva, Anorexia and the Hunger of Abjection, 22. Merleau-Ponty among the Charismatics and Peyotists, 23. Peirce among the Muslim Saints’ Graves in Java, 24. Sontag and the Image Machine in Iran, 25. Stengers Meets an Andean Mountain That Is Not Only Such, 26. Waldenfels among Spirits and Saints in Morocco, 27. Wittgenstein among the Santeros: Finding my Feet with Tomás.