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Transcendent individual : towards a literary and liberal anthropology / Nigel Rapport

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Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Manifesto: Towards a liberal and literary appreciation of the conscious and creative individual -- 1. Writing Individual Knowledge and Personal Relations: Eschewing the paths to impersonalisation -- 2. 'Going Meta': Structure and creativity -- 3. Individual Narratives: 'Writing' as a mode of thought which gives meaning to experience -- 4. Movement and Identity: Narrations of 'home' in a world in motion -- 5. "Surely Everything Has Already Been Said About Malinowski's Diary!" -- 6. Writing Fieldnotes: On the conventionalities of note-taking and taking note, local and academic -- 7. Domino Worlds: At home on the dominoes-table in Wanet -- 8. Hard-sell or Mumbling "Right" Rudely: The hold of conversation: the power of discursive surfaces -- 9. Discourse and Creativity: Sheikh Alwan: Fathalla: Sid Askrig -- 10. Individual Morality: Between liberalism, anthropology and biology.
Summary
"How might anthropology seem if it were written in celebration of individuality - of the individual's conscious and creative engagement with socio-cultural milieux - and if it were committed to a liberal agenda which sought to cherish and defend that individuality?" "Transcendent Individual argues for just such a commitment: a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theorising and ethnographic writing, and a social-scientific appreciation of the individual as methodological, moral, pragmatic and aesthetic subject. Here is an anthropological account of individual creativity, of the narrativity of individual expression, of the originality of individual becoming, and of the morality of the individual body." "Drawing widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials, and bringing into debate a range of voices - Nietzsche, Wilde and Forster, Bateson and Gerald Edelman, George Steiner, Richard Rorty and John Berger, Edmund Leach and Anthony Cohen - the book approaches individuality in terms of a range of issues: biological integrity, consciousness, agency, democracy, discourse, knowledge, consumerism, globalism and play."--Jacket
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0203269551 (electronic bk.)
9780203269558 (electronic bk.)
0203448278 (electronic bk.)
9780203448274 (electronic bk.)
9780415169660 (hbk.)
0415169666 (hbk.)
9780415169677 (pbk.)
0415169674 (pbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-214) and index.
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