Demands of the Day: On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry

by Anthony Stavrianakis and Paul Rabinow

Book Overview

Demands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "demands of the day." Just as the demand of the day for anthropology decades ago consisted of thinking about fieldwork, today, they argue, the demand is to examine what happens after, how the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022603688X
• ISBN13: 9780226036885
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"