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Acknowledgments
Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms / Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh vii
1. Ajàlá's Head: Reflections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting / Michael Jackson 27
2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology / Didier Fassin 50
3. The Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary / Clara Han 71
4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory / João Biehl 94
5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matters / Arthur Kleinman 119
6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers / Ghassan Hage 138
7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought / Bhrigupati Singh 159
8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer 188
9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology / Michael Pruett 218
10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton 234
11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles / Vincent Crapanzano 254
12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events / Veena Das 279
References 307
Contributors 329
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