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Relational Thinking in Anthropology 2019-08-02 (SOURCES: All of these…
Relational Thinking in Anthropology
SOURCES: All of these authors share Kohn’s ambition to overcome the Cartesian divides of mind versus matter, culture versus nature, human vs non-human and try to construct scenarios that explain how human minds evolved. There’s a lot to be learned by comparing their arguments. Just saying, don’t know if we have time for that.
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In contrast, James Weiner (1993) proposes two steps out of this conundrum. First, he recommends instead beginning any anthropological investigation with the assumption that social relations are the “pre-figured end-product of anthropological analysis” (ibid.: 289). Once this is made, he proposes that it is our task in the discipline “…to specify the conditions under which the world is perceived to be relationally based (by ourselves as well as our hosts) prior to our analysis of it” (italics his, ibid.: 288). By focusing on the conditions into how relations are made, we can begin to see in which context individuals choose to disassociate and how they do it. I am not sure if we can link it to network analysis per se.
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