Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15981
Title: Remote and edgy: New takes on old anthropological themes
Contributor(s): Harms, Erik (author); Hussain, Shafqat (author); Newell, Sasha (author); Piot, Charles (author); Schein, Louisa (author); Shneiderman, Sara (author); Turner, Terence S (author); Zhang, Juan  (author)
Publication Date: 2014
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.14318/hau4.1.020Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15981
Abstract: Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of 'remote' areas recently reprinted in Hau (Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can be detached from its geographical moorings and understood not simply as a spatial concept but as a relativistic social construct. Considered in conjunction with the notion of 'edginess', they understand remoteness not so much as a place, but as a way of being. By purposefully comparing work in cities and in places more commonly described as remote, they show that the remote may be present in any site of anthropological inquiry.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(1), p. 361-381
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 2049-1115
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440107 Social and cultural anthropology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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