A passage to anthropology : between experience and theory /

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Author / Creator:Hastrup, Kirsten.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Description:xiii, 217 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2381568
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ISBN:0415129222 (hb)
0415129230 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the itinerary
  • 1. The ethnographic present: on starting in time
  • 2. The language paradox: on the limits of words
  • 3. The empirical foundation: on the grounding of worlds
  • 4. The anthropological imagination: on the making of sense
  • 5. The motivated body: on the locus of agency
  • 6. The inarticulate mind: on the point of awareness
  • 7. The symbolic violence: on the loss of self
  • 8. The native voice: on taking responsibility
  • 9. The realist quest: on asking for evidence
  • Epilogue: returning home.