Beyond Description : Anthropologies of Explanation

Beyond Description Anthropologies of Explanation

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the hea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heywood, Paolo (-)
Other Authors: Candea, Matei
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
political phenomenon, post-truth, cognitive therapy, empirical questions, ethnographic studies, examinations, anthropology, epistemological questions, philosophy, sociology, epistemology, interpretation, social analysis.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009775735606719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ethnographies of Explanation and the Explanation of Ethnography
  • Part 1: ON ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS
  • 1. Are There Anthropological Problems?
  • 2. On Anthropological Findings
  • 3. On (Not) Explaining the Domestic Miracle
  • 4. Emergent Explanation
  • 5. Bourdieu, the Demystifying Power of Individualism, and the Crisis of Anthropology
  • 6. The Economic Explanation
  • Part 2: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF EXPLANATION
  • 7. Anthropological Explanation by Virtue of Individual Worldviews and the Case of Stanley Spencer
  • 8. Explaining Post-truth
  • 9. Finding Real and Fake Explanations
  • 10. Explaining Mindfulness in Political Advocacy
  • 11. Explaining the Politics of the Author
  • Contributors
  • Index

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