Detachment - Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking

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 Yarrow
Part I: Professionalism and expertise
1. Some merits and difficulties of detachment - Maryon MacDonald
2. Virtuous detachments in engineering practice - on the ethics of (not) making a difference - Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox
3. Artisanal affection: detachment in human-animal relations within intensive pig production in Britain - Kim Crowder
4. Comment - Veena Das
Part II: Ritual and religion
5. Engaged disbelief: problematics of detachment in Christianity and in the anthropology of Christianity - Joel Robbins
6. Detachment and ethical regard - James Laidlaw
7. Detachment, difference and separation: Levi-Strauss at the wedding feast - Caroline Humphrey
8. Comment - Michael Carrithers
Part III: Detaching and situating knowledge
9. The capacity for re-description: environments for hyphens - Alberto Corsín Jiménez
10. Test sites: attachments and detachments in community-based ecotourism - Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik
11. Learning to experience the truth: the role of detachment in mindfulness-based therapy in Thailand - Joanna Cook
12. Ignorance and the ethics of detachment among Mongolian Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia, China - Jonathan Mair
13. Comment - Marilyn Strathern
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tom Yarrow is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham UniversityMatei Candea is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of CambridgeCatherine Trundle is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of WellingtonJo Cook is Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London

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’ -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Yarrow, Thomas Candea Yarrow
• Mitarbeit: Matei Candea (Herausgeber), Candea Matei (Herausgeber), Jo Cook (Herausgeber), Cook Jo (Herausgeber), Catherine Trundle (Herausgeber), Ms Catherine Trundle (Herausgeber), Thomas Yarrow (Herausgeber), Yarrow Thomas (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526133861
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3386-1
• Seiten: 288
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Philosophy, Social & cultural anthropology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology