Arpad Szakolczai

Political Anthropology as Method (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, rejecting the pretended stance of scientific neutrality that has dominated in the human and social sciences of late, and advancing a position that recognises the value of participation in developing a proper social and political understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000845655
• Artikelnr.: 67269530

Autorenporträt

Arpad Szakolczai is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary, Permanent Liminality and Modernity and Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic. He is the co-author of Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking and The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: The Meaning of Method
1. What is a method? And a methodology?
2. The importance of participation
3. Participation on the road
PART 2: The Troubles with Scientific Methodology
4. The absurdity of a scientific method
5. Some matters of historical context
6. The idols of scientific methodology
PART 3: Some Methods of Political Anthropology
7. Words
8. Images
9. Understanding through authors
10. Understanding through novels
11. Historical methods
12. Anthropological methods
Conclusion