{"product_id":"detachment-essays-on-the-limits-of-relational-thinking-9780719096853","title":"Detachment Essays on the Limits of Relational","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'By now detachment has been thoroughly dethroned as a general ideal for modern subjects. This makes it possible for the authors assembled in this compelling volume to present subtle, detailed explorations of practices of detachment in different contexts -from pig farming in Britain to monastery life in Tibet. Like attaching, detaching, too, emerges as an art that is situationally worthwhile, necessary, or unavoidable. Start reading and - can I say this? - you will be hooked.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Annemarie Mol, Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book quite brilliantly exposes the imperative of connection that drives so much of contemporary theory. Taking their distance from this imperative, the contributors develop a sophisticated and insightful proposal for the potentiality of detachment or disconnection as an ethical and epistemic practice. The proposal is at once measured and provocative; social scientists of all kinds will be stirred by Detachment.'\u003cbr\u003eAlain Pottage, Professor of Law, London School of Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The value of these essays lies in their empirical detail – reminding us that our discursive habit of hypostatizing key terms seldom illuminates, but tends to blind us to the dynamic processes and ever-changing experiences of social existence, which define, after all, the original raisons d’ˆetre of anthropological inquiry.’\u003cbr\u003eMichael D. Jackson Harvard Divinity School, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Matei Candea, Jo Cook, Catherine Trundle and Thomas Yarrow\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Professionalism and expertise \u003cbr\u003e1. Some merits and difficulties of detachment – Maryon MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e2. Virtuous detachments in engineering practice – on the ethics of (not) making a difference – Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox\u003cbr\u003e3. Artisanal affection: detachment in human-animal relations within intensive pig production in Britain – Kim Crowder\u003cbr\u003e4. Comment – Veena Das\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Ritual and religion \u003cbr\u003e5. Engaged disbelief: problematics of detachment in Christianity and in the anthropology of Christianity – Joel Robbins\u003cbr\u003e6. Detachment and ethical regard – James Laidlaw\u003cbr\u003e7. Detachment, difference and separation: Levi-Strauss at the wedding feast – Caroline Humphrey \u003cbr\u003e8. Comment – Michael Carrithers\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Detaching and situating knowledge \u003cbr\u003e9. The capacity for re-description: environments for hyphens – Alberto Corsín Jiménez\u003cbr\u003e10. Test sites: attachments and detachments in community-based ecotourism – Casper Bruun Jensen and Brit Ross Winthereik\u003cbr\u003e11. Learning to experience the truth: the role of detachment in mindfulness-based therapy in Thailand – Joanna Cook\u003cbr\u003e12. Ignorance and the ethics of detachment among Mongolian Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia, China – Jonathan Mair \u003cbr\u003e13. Comment – Marilyn Strathern \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037354033495,"sku":"9780719096853","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/detachment-essays-on-the-limits-of-relational-thinking-9780719096853","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}