9781478000808-1478000805-After Ethnos

After Ethnos

ISBN-13: 9781478000808
ISBN-10: 1478000805
Author: Tobias Rees
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478000808
ISBN-10: 1478000805
Author: Tobias Rees
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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After Ethnos (ISBN-13: 9781478000808 and ISBN-10: 1478000805), written by authors Tobias Rees, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural (Anthropology, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent After Ethnos (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.
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