...The Conclusion calls attention to the continuing presence of conjectural history not only in Foucault's thought, but in popular and scholarly archaeology, cultural anthropology, and histories of political institutions. Indeed, conjectural thought and form may be stronger and more productive now...

... its apparent weakness seem an effect of colonial rule rather than the explanation for it.” In writing The Hollow Crown, the book's author came to see culture differently, using history against anthropology and textual analysis and anthropology against history. After publishing...

...This chapter explores the connection between colonialism and anthropology in southern India by focusing on the controversial ritual known as hookswinging. It begins by looking at the controversies over whether or not—and if so how—to suppress hookswinging as well as many of the underlying...

...This chapter offers a personal reflection of Franz Boas's role in the disciplinary formation of anthropology in America during his time at Columbia University. Boas came to anthropology from a background in physics and natural science. He insisted on a separation between natural science, where...

...This chapter reflects on how Allan Bloom's controversial book, The Closing of the American Mind, influenced his engagement with the history and anthropology of India (and empire). Bloom's book, published in 1987, fired the “first shot of the culture wars” by sparking a spirited...

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...Chapter two considers the seemingly incompatible perspectives of philosophy and ethnography. While philosophy has traditionally presumed to make universal claims about the human condition, modern socio-cultural anthropology has, for the most part, avoided such claims, preferring a vision of human...

...Chapter three explores the recurring problem in both philosophy and anthropology of doing justice to what William James called the “unsharable feeling which each of us has of the pinch of his individual destiny as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune’s wheel.” Is it possible to bracket out...

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...My concluding chapter returns to the theme with which this book began – the oscillation between intimacy and estrangement, participation and observation, immanence and transcendence, and the contrary roles that anthropology and philosophy have traditionally played in academic discourse. Life...

...Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers...

... and animals closer together. He marshals evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ethology to further advance this work and to drive home the truth that we are distinguished from animals only in degree, not in kind....

.... The book merges political science with anthropology, and documents how political leaders, commanders and the new ruling elite have used elections to further their own interests and deprive local communities of access to political opportunities. It retraces presidential, parliamentary and provincial council...

...This chapter presents an exercise in “viewing from afar” through the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. Sahlins developed his historical anthropology based on the ethnographic, historical, and archival work that he carried out on the distant islands of the Pacific Ocean. Sahlins' work is used...

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... and Race in India, Ghurye was especially concerned to evaluate the claims of the colonial state's anthropologist, H. H. Risley, about the racial origins of caste. The book analyzes Ghurye's critique of colonial anthropology and the racial theories of Risley. Bombay University colonial knowledge...

..., the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experiences. Through this process, the people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of historic inquiry, and anthropological insights...