Anthropological Phenomenology and the Eventive Ground
Christopher Stephan, C. Jason Throop
Contributions to Phenomenology 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26074-2_18 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Argues that ethnographic knowledge rests on an 'eventive ground' and that anthropology has a distinctive phenomenological potential. Contends that anthropologists have extended phenomenological theory by attending to the cultural and social conditions under which phenomena disclose themselves, contributing to work on intersubjectivity, genetic phenomenology, perception, the senses, self-experience, embodiment, emotion, affect, mood, politics, and ethics. |
Abstract
Abstract: This chapter theorizes the phenomenological potential of anthropology through an examination of what we will call the “eventive ground” of ethnographic knowledge. Though anthropologists and phenomenologists have reacted to one another’s work, including the now famous early correspondence between Husserl and Levy Bruhl (see Sato, 2014; Throop, 2018), it has only been over the past few decades that some anthropologists began to distinguish a genre of a distinctively ‘phenomenological anthropology’ (Desjarlais & Throop, 2011; Katz & Csordas, 2003; Ram & Houston, 2015). Anthropologists have applied and extended phenomenological theory in several respects. By attending to the cultural and social contexts—the conditions of possibility—within which phenomena variously disclose themselves, anthropologists have significantly contributed to research in intersubjectivity and genetic phenomenology. Likewise, anthropologists have frequently drawn from and contributed to the phenomenology of perception, the senses, self-experience, embodiment, emotion, affect, mood, politics, and ethics.
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