Theoretical anthropology or how to observe a human being /
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| Author / Creator: | Piette, Albert, 1960- author. |
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| Imprint: | London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. |
| Description: | xxiii, 173 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, society and new technologies series Research, innovative theories and methods in social sciences and humanities set ; volume 1 Science, society and new technologies series. Research, innovative theories and methods in social sciences and humanities set ; v. 1. Science, society and new technologies series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11920355 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Theory: Observing the Human Volume
- 1.1. Volume and voluments
- 1.2. The entirety of a volume and the density of presence
- 1.3. Difference and separation
- 1.4. Volumuation and continuity
- 1.5. Lessereity
- Chapter 2. Illustrating: Drawings of Theory
- 2.1. Drawings and contraspective
- 2.2. Focusing on the human figure
- 2.2.1. Putting into perspective
- 2.2.2. Separation
- 2.2.3. Focusing on the volume
- 2.2.4. Rays
- 2.2.5. Voluments
- 2.2.6. Consistency and style
- 2.2.7. Volugrams
- 2.2.8. Peripheral gestures, presence and absence
- Chapter 3. Debates: Anthropology and the Human Entity
- 3.1. Experience and existence
- 3.2. Going beyond, wrenching and eccentricity
- 3.3. Lines and flow
- 3.4. Intersubjectivity
- 3.5. Perspections of the individual
- Chapter 4. Further Development: Structural Existantism
- 4.1. Lévi-Strauss and the difficult ambition of anthropology
- 4.2. A structural approach and the human volume
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
