Anthropology

A Continental Perspective

Christoph Wulf, Deirdre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta Rouse, Richard J. Rouse, Deirdre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta Rouse, Richard J. Rouse

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780226925073, 9780226925066
• eBook ISBN: 9780226925080
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Philosophy
• Index: Social Sciences

Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years.

 

Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it.

Index

abstraction, 88, 119, 121, 141, 175, 177, 257, 261

action(s), 8, 39, 42, 44–46, 49, 51–54, 63, 66–72, 96, 102, 104, 136, 139, 142–43, 145–47, 149–50, 154, 156, 181, 184–85, 188, 193–94, 197–99, 205, 221–24, 235, 249, 264–65, 285–86, 288; collective/joint, 5, 148, 220, 249; educational, 147, 152; everyday, 66, 200, 223; imaginary, 149; mimetic, 141, 143–44, 160, 179, 186, 189–90, 196–98; political, 53, 97; ritual, 145, 151–52, 155, 202, 218, 223–24, 226–27, 229–30; sacred, 180; social, 7, 90, 97, 102, 117, 141, 152, 194–98, 200–201, 233, 235; symbolic, 147, 198, 217; theory of, 46, 53, 235

adaptation, 17–21, 26–27, 39, 166, 172, 196, 198, 262, 298

Adelung, Johann Christoph, 81

adolescence, adolescent, 47, 50, 84, 140–41, 144, 148, 171, 216, 233, 265

Adorno, Theodor W., 115–16, 140, 175–76, 189, 204, 272

aesthetics, aesthetic, 8, 52, 118, 122, 128–29, 140, 143, 147, 178, 189–90, 197, 199, 208, 210, 260–61, 266, 277–78, 298; aesthetic experience, 118, 129, 135, 147, 189, 192, 210, 266

Africa, 23, 26–27, 29–32, 80, 84, 86, 90, 254, 309n29

agent, agency, 183, 214, 225

aggression, aggressive(ness), 49, 90, 148, 193, 196, 217

Alexandria, 316n13

alienation, alienating, alien, 43, 46, 71, 107–8, 238, 285

alterity, 78, 103–4, 107–9, 12...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Paradigms of Anthropology
• Core Issues of Anthropology
• Future Prospects: Single Discipline and Transdisciplinary Research
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index