An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of 'detachment'
An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of 'detachment'
Matei Candea is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Jo Cook is Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London Catherine Trundle is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington Tom Yarrow is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Matei Candea, Jo Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow Part I: Professionalism and expertise 1. Some merits and difficulties of detachment Maryon MacDonald 2. Virtuous detachments in engineering practice on the ethics of (not) making a difference Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox 3. Artisanal affection: detachment in human animal relations within intensive pig production in Britain Kim Crowder 4. Comment Veena Das Part II: Ritual and religion 5. Engaged disbelief: problematics of detachment in Christianity and in the anthropology of Christianity Joel Robbins 6. Detachment and ethical regard James Laidlaw 7. Detachment, difference and separation: Levi Strauss at the wedding feast Caroline Humphrey 8. Comment Michael Carrithers Part III: Detaching and situating knowledge 9. The capacity for re description: environments for hyphens Alberto Corsín Jiménez 10. Test sites: attachments and detachments in community based ecotourism Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik 11. Learning to experience the truth: the role of detachment in mindfulness based therapy in Thailand Joanna Cook 12. Ignorance and the ethics of detachment among Mongolian Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia, China Jonathan Mair 13. Comment Marilyn Strathern Index
Introduction: Matei Candea, Jo Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow Part I: Professionalism and expertise 1. Some merits and difficulties of detachment Maryon MacDonald 2. Virtuous detachments in engineering practice on the ethics of (not) making a difference Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox 3. Artisanal affection: detachment in human animal relations within intensive pig production in Britain Kim Crowder 4. Comment Veena Das Part II: Ritual and religion 5. Engaged disbelief: problematics of detachment in Christianity and in the anthropology of Christianity Joel Robbins 6. Detachment and ethical regard James Laidlaw 7. Detachment, difference and separation: Levi Strauss at the wedding feast Caroline Humphrey 8. Comment Michael Carrithers Part III: Detaching and situating knowledge 9. The capacity for re description: environments for hyphens Alberto Corsín Jiménez 10. Test sites: attachments and detachments in community based ecotourism Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik 11. Learning to experience the truth: the role of detachment in mindfulness based therapy in Thailand Joanna Cook 12. Ignorance and the ethics of detachment among Mongolian Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia, China Jonathan Mair 13. Comment Marilyn Strathern Index
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