‘I am Here’, Abraham Said by Nigel Rapport
Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
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Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology
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The Politics of Egalitarianism
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Religion in English Everyday Life
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Holistic Anthropology
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Taboo, Truth and Religion
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Categories of Self
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Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
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Categories and Classifications
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Marcel Mauss
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Hunting the Gatherers
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Expeditionary Anthropology
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Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
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Anyone
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Regimes of Ignorance
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Who are 'We'?
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Search After Method
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Engaging Evil
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Chicanery
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Navigating Terrains of War
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A History of Oxford Anthropology
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Difficult Folk?
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Ways of Knowing
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Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century
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Up Close and Personal
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An Ethnographic Chiefdom
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The Social Origins of Thought
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The Problem of Context
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Radcliffe-Brown
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The Spirit of Matter
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The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
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Total Atheism
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Anthropologists in a Wider World
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Correcting the Record
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The Scope of Anthropology
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An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology
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The Life of Property
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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
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Returning Life
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Two Against the Tide
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Medicinal Rule
“This is a compelling and thought-provoking piece of workIt offers an excellent account and application of Levinas’ work to anthropology, demonstrating the relevance of his philosophical writings to the discipline. The book is clearly written and will be of interest and relevance within the social sciences and in relation to other disciplines.” • Andrew Irving, University of Manchester
Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. His most recent book was Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality: Ethical Engagement beyond Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781805394709 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805394703 |
| Title | ‘I am Here’, Abraham Said |
| Author | Nigel Rapport |
| Series | Methodology And History In Anthropology Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2024-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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