An Anthropological Perspective. Representation, Modernity, and the Contemporary

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Geertz on perspectives

Week 3: Context of the problem of perspective

Week 4: Marcus, Fischer and the crisis of representation

Week 5: Nietzsche on lie

Week 6: Abu-Lughod on culture

Week 7: Abu-Lughod’s stategies

Week 8: Limón and precursory ethnography

Week 9: Modern vs. postmodern

Week 10: Rabinow on the contemporary

Week 11: Faubion’s triad

Week 12: Self-awareness

Week 13: Complexity

Week 14: (Wo)man

Week 15: Conclusion

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Limón J.E., “Representation, Ethnicity, and the Precursory Ethnography: Notes of a Native Anthropologist”, in: Recapturing Anthropology. Working in the Present, ed. by R.G. Fox, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1991, pp 115-135.

Marcus G.E., Fischer M.M.J., Anthropology as Cultural Critique. An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, Chicago – London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Rabinow P., Stavrianakis A., Demands of the Day. On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry, Chicago – London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Zaporowski A., “An Anthropological Perspective. A Particular Case”, in: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2021, 2(48), pp 319-338.

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