Political Anthropology as Method

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-21778-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Contemporary Liminality

This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects the pretended stance of scientific neutrality and advances a position that engages with the notion of participation, recognising its value and arguing that participation is essential to the development of a proper social and political understanding. An outline of what political anthropology can offer by way of methods, this invitation to consider the development of methodological ideas beyond the presumed ‘scientific’ and ‘universalistic’ approaches that dominate in the social sciences will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology and politics with interests in questions of method and methodology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szakolczai, Arpad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: The Meaning of Method

1. What is a method? And a methodology?

2. The importance of participation

3. Participation on the road

PART 2: The Troubles with Scientific Methodology

4. The absurdity of a scientific method

5. Some matters of historical context

6. The idols of scientific methodology

PART 3: Some Methods of Political Anthropology

7. Words

8. Images

9. Understanding through authors

10. Understanding through novels

11. Historical methods

12. Anthropological methods

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Arpad Szakolczai is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, Comedy and the Public Sphere, Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary, Permanent Liminality and Modernity and Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic. He is the co-author of Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking and The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology.