After ethnos
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After ethnos
Duke University Press, 2018
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-168) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
what if . . . ix
acknowledgments xi
introduction. all of it 1
1. on anthropology (free from ethnos) 7
anthropology and philosophy (differently) 17
philosophy/Philosophy 25
thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism) 28
escaping (the already thought and known) 32
2. "of" the human (after "the human") 34
cataloguing 45
antihumanism 49
a disregard for theory 52
no ontology 55
3. on fieldwork (itself) 70
assemblages (or how to study difference in time?) 84
not history 93
epochal (no more) 95
4. on the actual (rather than the emergent) 97
the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement) 108
why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry) 110
5. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places) 113
one last question 118
notes 121
bibliography 151
index 169
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