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Anthropology and the study of contradictions

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Contradictions constitute one fundamental aspect of human life. Humans are steeped in contradictory thoughts, feelings, and attitudes. In this debate, five anthropologists adopt an individual-centered and phenomenological perspective on contradictions. How can one live with them? How to describe them from an anthropological point of view? Should we rethink our dear notion of the “social agent” through that of contradiction?

Source: Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory

DOI: 10.14318/hau6.1.002

Authors: David Berliner, Michael Lambek, Richard Shweder, Richard Irvine, Albert Piette

Institutions: Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Toronto Scarborough, University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Université Paris Nanterre

Language: English

Topic: Anthropological Studies and Insights

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2474779446

FWCI: 37.76

Cites: 48

Cited by: 110

Related to: 10