Bøker av James D. Faubion

Features a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge and practice. This book focuses on how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out.

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Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the "e;margins of Europe"e; recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Drawing inspiration from Athens and its cultural elite, Faubion explores the meaning of modernity, finding it not in the singular character of "e;Western civilization"e; but instead in an increasingly diverse family of practices of reform.

Reveals millennialism as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a gnosis, and an ethics.