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Book/Printed Material Beyond description : anthropologies of explanation

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Title

  • Beyond description : anthropologies of explanation

Summary

  • "A survey of forms of explanation in social anthropology and ethnographic accounts of explanation to be found in areas of religion, medicine, politics, and economics"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Heywood, Paolo, editor
  • Candea, Matei, editor

Created / Published

  • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.

Contents

  • Introduction: Ethnographies of explanation and the explanation of ethnography / Matei Candea and Paolo Heywood -- Are there anthropological problems? / Paolo Heywood -- On anthropological findings / Tanya M. Luhrmann -- On (not) explaining the domestic miracle / Jon Bialecki -- Emergent explanation / Matei Candea and Thomas Yarrow -- Bourdieu, the demystifying power of individualism, and the crisis of anthropology / Gildas Salmon, translated by Nicolas Carter -- The economic explanation / Richard Staley -- Anthropological explanation by virtue of individual worldviews and the case of Stanley Spencer / Nigel Rapport -- Explaining post-truth / Jonathan Mair -- Finding real and fake explanations / Sarah Green -- Explaining mindfulness in political advocacy / Joanna Cook -- Explaining the politics of the author / Adam Reed.

Headings

  • -  Ethnology--Philosophy
  • -  Explanation
  • -  Philosophical anthropology

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GN345

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023003279

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  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Heywood, Paolo, and Matei Candea, editor. Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023003279/.

APA citation style:

Heywood, P. & Candea, M., editor. (2023) Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023003279/.

MLA citation style:

Heywood, Paolo, and Matei Candea, editor. Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023003279/>.