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Book SynopsisTobias Rees proposes an understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically oriented and fieldwork-based investigation into the human and human thought rather than a study of culture or society in which anthropology is synonymous with ethnography and fieldwork.
Table of Contentswhat if . . . ix
acknowledgments xi
introduction. all of it 1
1. on anthropology (free from ethnos) 7
anthropology and philosophy (differently) 17
philosophy/Philosophy 25
thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism) 28
escaping (the already thought and known) 32
2. "of" the human (after "the human") 34
cataloguing 45
antihumanism 49
a disregard for theory 52
no ontology 55
3. on fieldwork (itself) 70
assemblages (or how to study difference in time?) 84
not history 93
epochal (no more) 95
4. on the actual (rather than the emergent) 97
the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement) 108
why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry) 110
5. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places) 113
one last question 118
notes 121
bibliography 151
index 169
