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Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Pragmatistic Anthropology -- Personal Identity -- Personhood and Moral Status -- Self-consciousness -- Freedom -- Autonomy -- Responsibility -- Pragmatistic Anthropology and Ethics in Application -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

Section A: IntroductionThe Digital and The Human - Daniel Miller (University College London, UK) and Heather A. Horst (RMIT University, Australia)Section B: Positioning Digital AnthropologyRethinking 'Digital' Anthropology - Tom Boellstorff (University of California, Irvine, USA)New Media Technologies in Everyday Life - Heather A. Horst (RMIT University, Australia)Geomedia: the Reassertion of Space Within Digital Culture - Lane DeNicola (University College London, UK)Section C: Socialising Digital AnthropologyDisability in the Digital Age - Faye Ginsburg (New York University, USA)Approaches to Personal Communication - Stefana Broadbent (University College London, UK)Social Networking Sites - Daniel Miller (University College London, UK)Section D: Politicising Digital AnthropologyDigital Politics and Political Engagement - John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)Free Software and the Politics of Sharing - Jelena Karanovic (New York University, USA)Diverse Digital Worlds - Bart Barendregt (Leiden University, Netherlands)Digital Engagement: Voice and Participation in Development - Jo Tacchi (RMIT University, Australia)Section E: Designing Digital AnthropologyDigital Anthropology in Design Anthropology - Adam Drazin (University College London, UK)Museum Digital = ? - Haidy Geismar (New York University, USA)Digital Gaming, Game Design, and its Precursors - Thomas Malaby (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)

The present effort is a compendious review of the theoretical orientations of political anthropology. Authors deliberately unfold the discussion with a paradox between the ?political anthropology? and the ?anthropology of politics? as a key that ought to relate the contemporary multidisciplinary stands of the subfield. It further focuses on the ?troubled history? of the sub-discipline to understand how it intensified sensitivity towards the pervasiveness of the embedded power and politics within the ?everyday? practice. The ubiquitous ?anthropology of politics? essentially prioritizes the increasing politicization of every single anthropological theme which was beyond the matrix of a single review article. So, the present attempt is rather an outline to render the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the century. By focusing on the successive approaches and recent trends authors try to extend the further scope of the interdisciplinary researches on the complexities and challenges of political anthropology within the age of neoliberal globalization.

How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised 'elsewhere' and 'otherwise'. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe's reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction / Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert -- Political Anthropology / Helmuth Plessner -- The Purpose of This Book -- 1. The Naturalistic Conception of Anthropology and Its Political Ambiguity -- The Path to Political Anthropology -- 2. The Universal Conception of Political Anthropology with Regard to the Human as the Historical Subject of Attribution of Its World -- 3. Should Universal Anthropology Proceed Empirically or A Priori? -- 4. Two Possible A Priori Procedures -- 5. The New Possibility of Combining the A Priori and Empirical Views according to the Principle of the Human's Unfathomability -- 6. Excursus: Dilthey's Idea of a Philosophy of Life -- 7. The Principle of Unfathomability, or The Principle of Open Questions -- 8. The Human as Power -- 9. The Exposure of the Human -- 10. Excursus: Why It Is Significant for the Question of Power That the Primacy of Philosophy or Anthropology Is Undecidable -- 11. The Powerlessness and Predictability of the Human -- 12. The Human Is Tied to a People -- Epilogue: Political Anthropology: Plessner's Fascinating Voice from Weimar / Joachim Fischer -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index of Names

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists' experiences of working with very diverse organizations in the private and public sector this volume examines existing and historical debates about applied anthropology. It explores the relationship between the ""pure and the impure""--Academic and applied anthropology, the question of anthropological identities in new working environments, new appropriate to these contexts, the skills needed by anthropologists working in applied contexts where multidisciplinary work is often undertaken, issues of ethics and responsibility, and how anthropology is perceived from the 'outside'. The volume signifies an encouraging future both for the application of anthropology outside academic departments and for the new generation of anthropologists who might be involved in these developments

In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology. Gendered Anthropology will be of particular value to undergraduates and lecturers in social anthropology and gender studies