Anthropology and Responsibility (ASA Monographs)

By: Melissa Demian and Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris

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Synopsis: This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists’ collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory, ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to a better understanding of responsibility, including the ‘responsibility of anthropology’ and the responsibility of anthropologists to specific others.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000859607
Related ISBNs:: 9781032283807, 9781003332077
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/30/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Melissa Demian
Edited by:: Mattia Fumanti
Edited by:: Christos Lynteris