Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality Brandel Andrew
Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality Brandel Andrew This volume examines an often taken for granted concept--that of the concept itself. Challenging conventional approaches that…
Specifikacia Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality Brandel Andrew
Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality Brandel Andrew
This volume examines an often taken for granted concept--that of the concept itself. Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers in this volume turn instead to the ways concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language.Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life?
The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
In the Grip of Grace
The Anthropology of Extinction
The Anthropology of Religion
The Anthropology of the State
Living in the Gaze of God