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(0)John W. Traphagan
1) Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
ENGHere you have the product of my thinking as an anthropologist who has studied and traveled to Japan for over thirty years.In one sense, the book is an anthropological memoir in which I work through ideas of uncertainty and undifferentiation evident in the writings of Dogen as they relate to ethics and culture, but also explore other thinkers like philosopher Richard Rorty and anthropologist Clifford Geertz. I describe what I call the ethnographic...
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our...