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Transcendent Individual : Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology.
Title:
Transcendent Individual : Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology.
Author:
Rapport, Nigel.
ISBN:
9780203448274
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Manifesto Towards a liberal and literary appreciation of the conscious and creative individual -- Writing Individual Knowledge and Personal Relations Eschewing the paths to impersonalisation -- 'Going Meta' Structure and creativity -- Individual Narratives 'Writing' as a mode of thought which gives meaning to experience -- Movement and Identity Narrations of 'home' in a world in motion -- ~Surely Everything Has Already Been Said About Malinowski's Diary!~ -- Writing Fieldnotes On the conventionalities of note-taking and taking note, local and academic -- Domino Worlds At home on the dominoes-table in Wanet -- Hard-sell or Mumbling ~Right~ Rudely The hold of conversation: the power of discursive surfaces -- Discourse and Creativity Sheikh Alwan: Fathalla: Sid Askrig -- Individual Morality Between liberalism, anthropology and biology -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements over and against culture in favour of individuality. Rapport draws widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials bringing into the debate a range of voices, among them Nietzsche, Wilde, George Steiner, Richard Rorty, John Berger and Anthony Cohen. In doing so he approaches individuality in terms of a range of issues: biological integrity, consciousness, agency, democracy, discourse, globalism, knowledge and play.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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