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Beyond Description

Beyond Description Trade paperback - 2023

by Heywood, Paolo (Editor), and Candea, Matei (Editor)

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Trade paperback, new. First paperback edition. Divided into two parts, this collection first considers norms and forms of explanation within the field of anthropology. The latter part looks at modes of explanation outside anthropology and confronts the dilemma of anthropologists endeavoring to describe rather than explain, letting the work speak for itself, with the realities of politics, publics and institutional policies that require explanations. Indexed. 250 pages.
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  • Title Beyond Description
  • Author Heywood, Paolo (Editor), and Candea, Matei (Editor)
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition First Paperback Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2023
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1645021056
  • ISBN 9781501771576 / 1501771574
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Ethnology - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023003278
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.01

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Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge.

By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself.

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About the author

Matei Candea is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Corsican Fragments and Comparison in Anthropology. Paolo Heywood is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Durham. He is the author of After Difference.

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