Anthropology and Responsibility
Melissa Demian · Mattia Fumanti · Christos Lynteris
Mar 2023 · Taylor & Francis
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This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists’ collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory, ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to a better understanding of responsibility, including the ‘responsibility of anthropology’ and the responsibility of anthropologists to specific others.
About the author
Melissa Demian is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Mattia Fumanti is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.
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