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T. M. S. Evens - Anthropology as Ethics - 9781845452247 - V9781845452247
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Anthropology as Ethics

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Description for Anthropology as Ethics Hardback. Cutting across social science and the humanities, this book develops the ontological implications of the thesis of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology: that all social order necessarily betrays conflicting underlying principles. It also mounts a study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism, as well as non-dualism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .

Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the Nuer, the Dinka, and the Azande, the book mounts a radical study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism and nondualism. It demonstrates how the self-other dichotomy disguises fundamental ambiguity or nondualism, thus obscuring the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845452247
SKU
V9781845452247
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99-15

About T. M. S. Evens
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester in 1971. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Calcutta, and Asmara University, Eritrea. He is author of Two ... Read more

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