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Author Demian, Melissa

Title Anthropology and Responsibility
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (221 p.)
Series ASA Monographs
A.S.A. monographs
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Anthropology and Responsibility -- References -- 1 Edgy Imaginaries: "Ghost" Orangutans, Extinction, and Responsibility in a Plantation Landscape -- Edgy Imaginaries in Orangutan Conservation -- Fragility Or Resilience? Edgy Questions in Conservation Strategies -- Apes On the (Anthropogenic) Edge -- "Ghost Orangutans" -- Life and Responsibility On the Edge -- Unsettling Scholarly Edges -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References
2 The Responsibility to Consume: Excessive "Environmentourism" Against Rhinoceros Extinction in South Africa -- The Responsibility to Consume: Excessive "Environmentourism" Against Rhinoceros Extinction in South Africa -- Methodology -- Environmentourism and Philanthrocapitalism -- Environmentourism -- Philanthrocapitalism -- Environmentourism Against Rhinocide? -- "Only Tourism Can Save Them": Appeals to Tourists' Responsibility -- Saving Rhinos and Racial Inequality -- Environmentourism Beyond the GKA -- Conclusion: Responsible Consumption and Giving in the Environmentourism Bubble -- Notes
5 The Vulnerability Vortex: Health, Exclusion, and Social Responsibility -- Social Determinants of Health -- Structural Violence -- The Vulnerability Vortex -- Indigeneity and Multiculturalism -- Assessing Vulnerability -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Keeping Things Under Control: Responsibilities Toward Things, Homes, and People in Hoarding Disorder -- Introduction -- Pathologies of the Uninhabitable: Responsibilities Toward Homes -- Burdened By Treasures: Gendered Responsibilities Toward Things and People -- Conclusion -- References
7 Racialized Positionalities: Ethnographic Responsibility and the Anthropology of Racism and White Supremacy -- Introduction -- Racialized Positionalities, a Proposal -- Position I -- The Ti Fi Blan (White Girl) -- Position II -- The Translator of Discriminatory Practices and a Racialized Language -- Position III -- The Writer, Ethnographic Weaver -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Of Calcutta, Death, and the South: Juxtaposing Three Calcuttas/Kolkatas -- Introduction -- What Is the "South"? A Scalar Problematic -- From Salt Lake to New Town -- Two KMDA/CMDAs -- Of Margins and Representations
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography References -- 3 Responsibility Versus Responsibilization: Mafiacraft, Witchcraft and the Rise of Conspiracy Thinking Today -- Mafiacraft - Or How to Grasp a Phenomenon That Wants to Remain Hidden? -- From Mafiacraft to Witchcraft -- The Responsibility of the Anthropologist -- Conspiracy Theory Now and the Anthropologist's Responsibility. -- Notes -- References -- 4 In the Wake of Disenchantment: Silence and the Limits of Ethnographic Attentiveness -- Disenchantment -- Silence -- Attentiveness -- Conclusion: a Constellation of Concepts -- Notes -- References
Notes Death, Legibility, and the South
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Fumanti, Mattia
Lynteris, Christos
ISBN 9781000859546
1000859541