Mehr lesen
Informationen zum Autor Tom Yarrow is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University Matei Candea is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Catherine Trundle is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington Jo Cook is Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London Klappentext An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of 'detachment' Zusammenfassung An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’ -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Matei Candea, Jo Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas YarrowPart I: Professionalism and expertise 1. Some merits and difficulties of detachment - Maryon MacDonald2. Virtuous detachments in engineering practice - on the ethics of (not) making a difference - Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox3. Artisanal affection: detachment in human-animal relations within intensive pig production in Britain - Kim Crowder4. Comment - Veena DasPart II: Ritual and religion 5. Engaged disbelief: problematics of detachment in Christianity and in the anthropology of Christianity - Joel Robbins6. Detachment and ethical regard - James Laidlaw7. Detachment, difference and separation: Levi-Strauss at the wedding feast - Caroline Humphrey 8. Comment - Michael CarrithersPart III: Detaching and situating knowledge 9. The capacity for re-description: environments for hyphens - Alberto Corsín Jiménez10. Test sites: attachments and detachments in community-based ecotourism - Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik11. Learning to experience the truth: the role of detachment in mindfulness-based therapy in Thailand - Joanna Cook12. Ignorance and the ethics of detachment among Mongolian Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia, China - Jonathan Mair 13. Comment - Marilyn Strathern Index...
