Beyond Description

Anthropologies of Explanation

Paolo Heywood, Matei Candea

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English

Cornell University Press
15 December 2023

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology

"Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is ""an explanation?"" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge.

By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself."

Edited by: Paolo Heywood, Matei Candea
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501771569
ISBN 10: 1501771566
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matei Candea is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Corsican Fragments and Comparison in Anthropology. Paolo Heywood is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Durham. He is the author of After Difference.