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229 pages, Paperback
First published November 4, 2009
what do anthropologists owe, conceptually, to the people they study?
every nontrivial anthropological theory is a version of an indigenous practice of knowledge
anthropological re-enchantment of scientific practice
I have in mind the detotalized, "disorganized" bodies that roam around Amerindian myths: the detachable penises and personified anuses, the rolling heads and characters cut into pieces, the eyes transposed from anteaters to jaguars and vice versa, etc.
only the incommensurate is worth comparing—comparing the commensurate, I think, is a task best left to accountants
the "paradox created by imagining a culture for people who do not imagine it for themselves
the emergence of a "practical ontology" (Jensen 2004) in which knowing is no longer a way of representing the unknown but of interacting with it, i.e., a way of creating rather than contemplating, reflecting, or communicating
Thinking through multiplicities [ex. D+G's rhizomes] is thinking against the State.