Breaking the Frames

Anthropological Conundrums

• Author(s): Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 104
• ISBN_10: 3319471279
  ISBN_13: 9783319471273
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

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.