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After Ethnos

Name: After Ethnos
Brand: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781478000808
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By Tobias Rees
Imprint: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 320 g
Pages: 277

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For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others-of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography-as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being-has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography-and the human from society and culture-and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.

Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of Social Research, a director of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms.

what if . . . ix acknowledgments xi introduction. all of it 1 1. on anthropology (free from ethnos) 7 anthropology and philosophy (differently) 17 philosophy/Philosophy 25 thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism) 28 escaping (the already thought and known) 32 2. "of" the human (after "the human") 34 cataloguing 45 antihumanism 49 a disregard for theory 52 no ontology 55 3. on fieldwork (itself) 70 assemblages (or how to study difference in time?) 84 not history 93 epochal (no more) 95 4. on the actual (rather than the emergent) 97 the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement) 108 why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry) 110 5. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places) 113 one last question 118 notes 121 bibliography 151 index 169

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