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Corrections of double vision

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2010) Corrections of double vision. Critique of Anthropology, 30 (1). pp. 94-101. ISSN 0308-275X

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Identification Number: 10.1177/0308275X09360128

Abstract

I argue that there are cross-cultural grounds for making political and moral judgements, but that they depend on empirical analyses of the situations in which the people concerned live and of the possibilities within them. I argue this despite the possibility of incommensurable concepts and scales of comprehension. We depend on the eliciting of local concepts or we are not anthropologists. But every part of this argument is disturbed by disconnections, or time-lapses in which the situations have changed beyond the terms of the analysis. So this argument is a comedy of aspiration, a story of learning to catch up and changing my own conceptions while never keeping up.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://coa.sagepub.com/
Additional Information: © 2010 Sage
Divisions: Anthropology
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2011 12:36
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 17:48
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32195

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