Reflecting on Reflexivity : : The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise / / ed. by Don Handelman, T. M. S. (Terry) Evens, Christopher Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Clough, Paul,; Cohen, Einat Bar-On,; Devisch, René,; Evens, Terry,; Ezrahi, Yaron,; Handelman, Don,; Ortiz, Horacio,; Roberts, Christopher,; Schissel, Paul,; Stroeken, Koenraad,
• HerausgeberIn: Evens, T. M. S. (Terry),; Handelman, Don,; Roberts, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood --; Section I , Reflexivity, Social Science, and Ethics --; Editors’ Preface --; 1 Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research? Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity --; 2 The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field --; 3 Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Nonlocality of Ritual Meaning --; 4 Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer --; Section II Reflexivity, Practice, and Embodiment --; 5 Wittgenstein’s Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse --; 6 Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity --; 7 Perfect Praxis in Aikido: A Reflexive Body-Self --; Section III Reflexivity, Self, and Other --; 8 Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader --; 9 Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking --; Section IV Reflexivity, Democracy, and Government --; 10 The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies --; Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782387534; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782387534
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Don Handelman, T. M. S. (Terry) Evens, Christopher Roberts.

Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other—anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume’s Preface, Introduction, and Postscript—it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes—definitively, albeit relatively—the being and becoming of the human.