Beyond description : anthropologies of explanation / edited by Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea.

"A survey of forms of explanation in social anthropology and ethnographic accounts of explanation to be found in areas of religion, medicine, politics, and economics"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via JSTOR)
Other Authors: Heywood, Paolo (Editor), Candea, Matei (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethnographies of explanation and the explanation of ethnography / Matei Candea and Paolo Heywood
  • Are there anthropological problems? / Paolo Heywood
  • On anthropological findings / Tanya M. Luhrmann
  • On (not) explaining the domestic miracle / Jon Bialecki
  • Emergent explanation / Matei Candea and Thomas Yarrow
  • Bourdieu, the demystifying power of individualism, and the crisis of anthropology / Gildas Salmon, translated by Nicolas Carter
  • The economic explanation / Richard Staley
  • Anthropological explanation by virtue of individual worldviews and the case of Stanley Spencer / Nigel Rapport
  • Explaining post-truth / Jonathan Mair
  • Finding real and fake explanations / Sarah Green
  • Explaining mindfulness in political advocacy / Joanna Cook
  • Explaining the politics of the author / Adam Reed.