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Students and scholars in anthropology and related disciplines are provided with focused debate on cutting-edge theoretical issues with ethnographic essays from across the globe. A classic journal article serves as a focus for debate together with responses by a team of upcoming and distinguished anthropologists to examine the issues from the perspective of varied ethnographic settings.
List of contents
1. Introduction: freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering human subject Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad and James Laidlaw; 2. Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times Caroline Humphrey; Part I. Decision: 3. On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary Veena Das; 4. Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia Lars Højer; 5. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as decision-events Agnieszka Halemba; Part II. Freedom: 6. Incidental connections: freedom and urban life in Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen; 7. The return to slavery? Nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China Katherine Swancutt (¿¿¿) and Jiarimuji (¿¿¿¿); Part III. Creativity: 8. Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds Matei Candea; 9. Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process Joel Robbins.
About the author
James Laidlaw is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom (Cambridge, 2014).Barbara Bodenhorn is a former Newton Trust Lecturer in Social Anthropology and is currently Fellow Emerita of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of An Anthropology of Names and Naming (Cambridge, 2006).Martin Holbraad is Professor of Social Anthropology at University College London. He is author of Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (2012), and co-author of The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition (Cambridge, 2017).
Summary
Students and scholars in anthropology and related disciplines are provided with focused debate on cutting-edge theoretical issues with ethnographic essays from across the globe. A classic journal article serves as a focus for debate together with responses by a team of upcoming and distinguished anthropologists to examine the issues from the perspective of varied ethnographic settings.
