The ground between : anthropologists engage philosophy / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh, editors.

Format Book
PublicationDurham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Descriptionviii, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--Philosophy.

Other author/creatorDas, Veena.
Other author/creatorJackson, Michael, 1940-
Other author/creatorKleinman, Arthur.
Other author/creatorSingh, Bhrigupati.
Contents Introduction: experiments between anthropology and philosophy: affinities and antagonisms / Veena Dasm Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh -- 1. Ajala's heads: reflections on anthropology and philosophy in a West African setting / Michael Jackson -- 2. The parallel lives of philosophy and anthropology / Didier Fassin -- 3. The difficulty of kindness: boundaries, time, and the ordinary / Clara Han -- 4. Ethnography in the way of theory / João Biehl -- 5. The search for wisdom: why William James still matters / Arthur Kleinman -- 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers / Ghassan Hage -- 7. How concepts make the world look different: affirmative and negative genealogies of thought / Bhrigupati Singh -- 8. Philosophia and anthropologia: reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M.J. Fischer -- 9. Ritual disjunctions : ghosts, philosophy, and anthropology / Michael Puett -- 10. Henri Bergson in highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton -- 11. Must we be bad epistemologists? Illusions of transparency, the opaque other, and interpretive foibles / Vincent Crapanzano -- 12. Action, expression, and everyday life : recounting household events / Veena Das.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013042778
ISBN9780822357070 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822357070 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822357186 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822357186 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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