Holbraad, M;
(2020)
The Shapes of Relations: Anthropology as Conceptual Morphology.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
, 50
(6)
pp. 495-522.
10.1177/0048393120917917.
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Abstract
Building critically on anthropology’s “ontological turn,” this article isolates conceptualization (as distinct from explanation and interpretation) as a core concern for anthropological thinking: anthropology as the activity of transfiguring the contingency of ethnographic materials in the formal language of conceptual relations and distinctions. Focusing on works by Mauss and Evans-Pritchard, as well as my own research, the article articulates the morphological character of such a project. While akin also to philosophy, such attention to the “shapes” of conceptual relations is analogous to the practice of art in its concern for the expressive potentials of these acts of conceptual transfiguration.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Shapes of Relations: Anthropology as Conceptual Morphology |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0048393120917917 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393120917917 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Ethics, Philosophy, Social Sciences - Other Topics, Ontological turn, conceptualization, explanation, interpretation, conceptual morphology, ONTOLOGY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10104824 |
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