An Anthropological Toolkit : : Sixty Useful Concepts / / David Zeitlyn.

Presenting sixty theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument.’ “David Zeitlyn has written a wryly engaging, short book on, essentially, why we should not become theoretical partisans—that, indeed, being a serious the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Sixty Words to Think With
  • A Note on Cross-References
  • A Affordance; Agnosia; Aporia; Archaeology; Argumentation Theory; Autopoiesis; Axonometric Projection
  • B Bifocal Ethnography; Blueprints, Scores and Maps; Boundary Objects
  • C Cabling; Catachresis; Chronotopes and Chronotypes; Collage/Montage; Colligation; Commitment
  • D Dialetheism/Paraconsistency
  • E Ekphrasis; Emic and Etic; Epiphanies; Epistemography; Equifinality; Equivocation (Controlled Equivocation); Essentially Contested Concepts; Exaptation; Exemplars
  • F Faithfulness; Figuration; Finitism (Meaning Finitism); Forbearing and ‘Subjective Counterfactuals’
  • H Hapax; Hesse Nets
  • I Incommensurability; Infirming; Instauration; Ironic Detachment; Irrealism; Isolarion
  • L Life Writing
  • M Mosaics
  • N Non-ergodicity
  • O Ostension
  • P Palimpsest Memory; Paraethnography; Partial Views and Partiality; Pattern Language; Positioning Theory; Prosopography
  • R Repleteness; Representation/Non-representation; Representational Force
  • S Sgraffiti; Stochastic Variation; Synaesthesia
  • T Teleoanalysis; Things; Translation (Anthropological Translation)
  • V Vagueness; Vignettes
  • W Wicked Problems
  • Coda: So What? A Worked Example of Making Sense of Ethnographic Fragments
  • Index