For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood
themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the
fieldwork-based description of faraway others-of how social
structures secretly organized the living-together of a given
society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them
with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of
anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a
century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography-as
well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural
being-has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning
it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors
to decouple anthropology from ethnography-and the human from
society and culture-and explores the manifold possibilities of
practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based
anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from
Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a
philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based
investigation of what it could mean to be human when the
established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been
built increasingly fail us.
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