Authors
David Berliner, Michael Lambek, Richard Shweder, Richard Irvine, Albert Piette
Publication date
2016/7
Journal
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
1-27
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Description
Contradictions constitute one fundamental aspect of human life. Humans are steeped in contradictory thoughts, feelings, and attitudes. In this debate, five anthropologists adopt an individual-centered and phenomenological perspective on contradictions. How can one live with them? How to describe them from an anthropological point of view? Should we rethink our dear notion of the “social agent” through that of contradiction?
Scholar articles
D Berliner, M Lambek, R Shweder, R Irvine, A Piette - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2016