Reflecting on Reflexivity : : The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Editors’ Preface
  • 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
  • Editors’ Preface
  • 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
  • Editors’ Preface
  • 10 The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies
  • Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science
  • Index

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