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Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, bullshit, frauds, knock offs-such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. But what does the modern human obsession with fabrications and frauds tell us about ourselves? And what can anthropology tell us about this obsession? This timely book is the product of the first Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords, a collaborative project between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L'Homme, held each year at the American Anthropological Association Meetings. The aim of the debate is reflect critically on keywords and terms that play a pivotal and timely role in discussions of different cultures and societies, and of the relations between them. This book, with multiple authors, explodes open our common sense notions of "novelty," "originality," and "truth," questioning how cultures where deception and mistrust flourish seem to produce effective, albeit opaque, forms of sociality.
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"Ce livre présente une méthode inductive en action, telle qu'elle a été mise en pratique pendant près de 50 ans d'enquêtes de terrain qualitatives dans les champs, les bureaux, les trains, les cuisines, les salles de bain ou les livings, et tout cela en Europe, en Asie, en Afrique, aux États-Unis et au Brésil. L'auteur promeut une nouvelle anthropologie de la modernité pour montrer que tout ce qui relève de la vie en société, du marché, de la famille ou de l'individu n'est pas observable en même temps. Il faut changer d'échelle d'observation pour les voir apparaître ou disparaître en fonction de la focale choisie. La compréhension du monde demande une connaissance mobile"--Cover.
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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.
Anthropology. --- Anthropology --- Ethnology. --- Philosophy.
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Forensic anthropology. --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Forensic sciences --- Anthropology
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