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Reflections on Imagination - Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Reflections on Imagination - Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
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In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to
a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted
investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect
of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human
beings process information about themselves, their identities,
their environments and their relations: the imagination. How do
anthropologists use imagination in coming to know their research
subjects? How might they, and how should they, use their
imagination? And how do research subjects themselves understand,
describe, justify and limit their use of the imagination?
Presenting a range of case studies from a variety of locations
including the UK, US, Africa, East Asia and South America, this
collection offers a comparative exploration of how imagination has
been conceptualized and understood in a range of analytical
traditions, with regard to issues of both methodology and
ethnomethodology. With emphasis not on abstraction but on
imagination as activity, technique and subject situated in the
middle of lives, Reflections on Imagination sheds new light on
imagination as a universal capacity and practice - something to
which human beings attend whenever they make sense of their
environments and situate their life-projects in these environments
- the means by which worlds come to be.
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