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An Anthropological Examination

by João Pina-Cabral
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Publisher: HAU, February of 2017 ‧
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What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does world mean for an ethnographer or an anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but do we really know what we mean by these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture, and how these shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in the midst of which they find themselves.
 
As Pina-Cabral shows, recent decades have seen important shifts in the way we relate human thought to human embodiment—the relation between how we think and what we are. The book proposes a novel approach to the human condition: an anthropological outlook that is centered around the notions of personhood and sociality. Through a rich confrontation with ethnographic and historical material, this work contributes to the ongoing task of overcoming the theoretical constraints that have hindered anthropological thinking over the past century.

World

An Anthropological Examination

by João Pina-Cabral

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ISBN: 9781912808243
Publisher: HAU
Release Date: February of 2017
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9781912808243
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

João Pina-Cabral

João Pina-Cabral é um antropólogo social com extensa obra etnográfica publicada sobre o Alto Minho, Macau e sobre a Bahia. A sua obra tem abordado principalmente a questão da pessoa e a sua relação com o poder, focando os aspetos da família, da religião e da etnicidade. É Investigador Coordenador do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa e Professor Catedrático Emérito da Escola de Antropologia e Conservação da Universidade de Kent (Reino Unido). Foi Presidente fundador da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia e co-fundador e ex-presidente da Associação Europeia de Antropólogos Sociais. Os seus principais livros são Filhos de Adão, Filhas de Eva (D. Quixote 1989), Os Contextos da Antropologia (Difel, 1991), Em Terra de Tufões (Instituto Cultural e Macau 1993), Between China and Europe: Person, Culture and Emotion in Macau (Continuum 2002), O Homem na Família (ICS, 2003), Aromas de Urze e de Lama (ICS, 2008), Gente Livre (Terceiro Nome, com V.A. da Silva, 2012) e World: An Anthropological Examination (2017).

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