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Taylor and Francis Ltd Philosophy on Fieldwork 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Bubandt, Nils
Expert-authored chapters that each demonstrate how the ideas of an influential philosopher can be applied to anthropological fieldwork. This book provides a template for how philosophy and anthropology, as disciplines, can inform and illuminate one another. 1. Philosophy on Fieldwork: Analysis as Bifocal Wonder, 2. Agamben and the Chinese Forced-Confession Ritual, 3. Arendt in the Lord's Resistance Army and the ICC, 4. Austin and Pandemic Performativity: From Cholera to COVID-19, 5. Bataille and the "Mindfulness Revolution", 6. Benjamin on the Trail of the Armenian Genocide, 7. Butler and Political (In)correctness, 8. Cesaire in Cape Town: The Surreal Ethnography of Ocean Pollution and Social Media Fakery, 9. Confucius in a Self-Help Group, 10. Deleuze Attends an Art Festival on a Small, North Atlantic Island, 11. Derrida and the Death of My Mother in Buli, 12. Foucault Foments Fieldwork at the University, 13. Gadamer in Black Los Angeles, 14. Harman, a Prophet, a Church, a Name: A Portrait of Four Objects, 15. Heidegger and Freedom in the Anti-drug War Movement, 16. Husserlian Horizons: Moods in Yap, 17. Ibn Rushd / Averroes in Mexico City's Kiosko Morisco, 18. Jabes amongst Songhay Sorcerers, 19. James and Radical Empiricism in Rural Indonesia, 20. Kopenawa and the Environmental Sciences in the Amazon, 21. Kristeva, Anorexia and the Hunger of Abjection, 22. Merleau-Ponty among the Charismatics and Peyotists, 23. Peirce among the Muslim Saints' Graves in Java, 24. Sontag and the Image Machine in Iran, 25. Stengers Meets an Andean Mountain That Is Not Only Such, 26. Waldenfels among Spirits and Saints in Morocco, 27. Wittgenstein among the Santeros: Finding my Feet with Tomas.