Description
This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical aspiration for the discipline as a whole.
Table of Contents
1. Framing History.- 2. Change.- 3. Processes.- 4. Individuals.- 5. Nature vs. Culture: A Mistaken Conundrum.- 6. Retreat of the Social? Where to?.- 7. Religion and Cognition.- 8. Language and Culture.- 9. Against -isms.- 10. For a Mindful Anthropology.
