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The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
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Description for The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Paperback. Explores through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. This title offers basic concepts of the discipline - including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life - are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy. Editor(s): Das, Veena; Kleinman, Arthur; Singh, Bhrigupati. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: HP; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference and otherness. In The Ground Between, twelve ... Read more
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference and otherness. In The Ground Between, twelve ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822357186
SKU
V9780822357186
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Ref
99-1
About Veena
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University and author of Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Bhrigupati Singh is Assistant Professor ... Read more
Reviews for The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
“Resisting the impulse to recognize one discipline in service of the other, The Ground Between collects ethnographic writing that sharpens dialogue between anthropology and philosophy.”
Paul Schissel
Anthropology and Humanism
“The Ground Between is a welcome and valuable addition to the literature on the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. It convincingly encourages us to seek new ways ... Read more
Paul Schissel
Anthropology and Humanism
“The Ground Between is a welcome and valuable addition to the literature on the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. It convincingly encourages us to seek new ways ... Read more