World : an anthropological examination /

World : an anthropological examination /

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Author / Creator:	Pina-Cabral, João de, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : Hau Books, [2017]
Description:	xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Malinowski monographs series ; volume 1 Malinowski monographs series ; v. 1.
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Social epistemology. Human beings. Ethnology -- Philosophy. Anthropology -- Philosophy. Anthropology -- Philosophy. Ethnology -- Philosophy. Human beings. Philosophical anthropology. Social epistemology.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11001231

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Other authors / contributors:	Oliveira, Joana Cabral de, author.
ISBN:	9780997367508 0997367504
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but are we really certain we know what we mean when use these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility for the ethnographic gesture and how those possibilities can shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in which they are found. As Joao de Pina-Cabral shows, important changes have occurred over the past decades concerning the way in which we relate the way we think to the way we are as a humanity embodied. Exploring new confrontations with a new conceptualization of the human condition, Cabral sketches a new anthropology, one that contributes to an ongoing separation from the socio-centric and representationalist constraints that have plagued the social sciences over the past century.

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Summary:	What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does world mean for an ethnographer or an anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but do we really know what we mean by these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture, and how these shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in the midst of which they find themselves.<br> <br> As Pina-Cabral shows, recent decades have seen important shifts in the way we relate human thought to human embodiment--the relation between how we think and what we are . The book proposes a novel approach to the human condition: an anthropological outlook that is centered around the notions of personhood and sociality. Through a rich confrontation with ethnographic and historical material, this work contributes to the ongoing task of overcoming the theoretical constraints that have hindered anthropological thinking over the past century.
Physical Description:	xii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780997367508 0997367504