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(0)Joanna Cook
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts....
2) An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such 'intellectual exchange' is also central to anthropologists' own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how...