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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/hau4.1.020 | 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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