Description
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Life with Concepts
Andrew Brandel and Marco Motta | 1
1 Concepts of the Ordinary
Sandra Laugier | 29
2 How Life Makes a Conversation of Us: Ontology, Ethics, and Responsive Anthropology
Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer | 50
3 Crisscrossing Concepts: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making
Veena Das | 73
4 The Potencie of Text: Shifting Concepts of Myth and Literature
Andrew Brandel | 110
5 How Social Are Our Concepts?
Jocelyn Benoist | 140
6 Living with Zombies: Forms of Death at the Core of the Ordinary
Marco Motta | 155
7 Creating Worlds: Imagination, Interpretation, and the Subjunctive
Michael J. Puett | 181
8 The Life Course of Concepts
Michael D. Jackson | 197
9 On Sorcery: Life with the Concept
Michael Lambek | 215
10 How Ethical Is Our Life with Concepts? Reflections on Shared Medical Decision Making
Michael Cordey | 243
11 In the Know: The Pain of the Other in Torture Rehabilitation
Lotte Buch Segal | 271
Acknowledgments | 291
References | 293
List of Contributors | 323
Name Index | 325
Subject Index | 329
