The Ground Between : Anthropologists Engage Philosophy

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms -- 1. Ajàlá's Heads: Refl ections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting -- 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology, -- 3. Th e...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms -- 1. Ajàlá's Heads: Refl ections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting -- 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology, -- 3. Th e Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary -- 4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory -- 5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matter -- 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers -- 7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Th ought -- 8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran -- 9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology -- 10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen -- 11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles -- 12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting House hold Events -- References -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung