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Distortion - Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic (Hardcover)
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Distortion - Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their
outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between
words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and
its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation;
and between a cultural tradition or habitus and its animation in
contemporary contexts. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of
structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex
connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences
as a phenomenon in its own right. This volume argues for the key
importance of distortion as a concept in the social sciences, and
attempts to refine it as a concept. Each chapter examines
distortion in the context of an ethnographic case study, examining
how its conceptualization can further comprehension of a particular
ethnographic situation. It is contended that distortion is an
account of the emergent or revolutionary nature of human life, an
emergence that can be attached to particular antecedent conditions
in a processual or temporal way yet is a transformation of the
essential nature of those conditions. Coming to terms with
distortion adds significantly to the social-scientific appreciation
of human activity and creativity, of conscious experience, of the
nature of social interaction and exchange, and of the complexity of
social milieu. Distortion should be essential reading on advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social theory,
contemporary issues and methodologies, communication, sociality,
materiality, and intersectionality.
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