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Abstract
Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other—anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume’s Preface, Introduction, and Postscript—it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes—definitively, albeit relatively—the being and becoming of the human.
Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Hebrew University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Christopher Roberts is Professor of Humanities and Religion at Lewis and Clark College.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Reflecting on Reflexivity | i | ||
Reflecting on Reflexivity - The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise | iii | ||
Contents | v | ||
Preface | vii | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Section I - Reflexivity, Social Science, and Ethics | 21 | ||
1 - Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research? | 25 | ||
2 - The Ethic of Being Wrong | 44 | ||
3 - Cosmopolitan Reflexivity | 62 | ||
4 - Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer | 90 | ||
Section II - Reflexivity, Practice, and Embodiment | 121 | ||
5 - Wittgenstein’s Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse | 124 | ||
6 - Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle | 142 | ||
7 - Perfect Praxis in Aikido | 173 | ||
Section III - Reflexivity, Self, and Other | 199 | ||
8 - Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader | 201 | ||
9 - Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking | 228 | ||
Section IV - Reflexivity, Democracy, and Government | 255 | ||
10 - The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies | 257 | ||
Postscript - Reflexivity and Social Science | 270 | ||
Index | 303 |