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    After Ethnos

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    Author(s)
    Rees, Tobias
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    2101c053-1bc6-4198-9958-0e72c5036aec
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48465
    Keywords
    Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002284
    ISBN
    9781478090854
    Publisher
    Duke University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.dukeupress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    2018
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
    Imprint
    Duke University Press
    Classification
    Social and cultural anthropology
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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