The Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2014
360 pages
978-0-8223-7643-9 (ISBN)
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Twelve leading anthropologists offer candid reflections on the influence of particular philosophers on their thought and ethnographic practices. They relate the philosophers to matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be attuned to the world through the senses.
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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 of Anthropology Brown University and the author of Gods and Grains: Lives of Desire in Rural India.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh vii
1. Ajàlá's Head: Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting / Michael Jackson 27
2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology / Didier Fassin 50
3. The Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary / Clara Han 71
4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory / João Biehl 94
5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matters / Arthur Kleinman 119
6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers / Ghassan Hage 138
7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought / Bhrigupati Singh 159
8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer 188
9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology / Michael Pruett 218
10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton 234
11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles / Vincent Crapanzano 254
12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events / Veena Das 279
References 307
Contributors 329
Index
Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh vii
1. Ajàlá's Head: Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting / Michael Jackson 27
2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology / Didier Fassin 50
3. The Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary / Clara Han 71
4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory / João Biehl 94
5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matters / Arthur Kleinman 119
6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers / Ghassan Hage 138
7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought / Bhrigupati Singh 159
8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer 188
9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology / Michael Pruett 218
10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton 234
11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles / Vincent Crapanzano 254
12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events / Veena Das 279
References 307
Contributors 329
Index
