Journal article
Understanding anthropological understanding: For a merological anthropology
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In this article I argue for a merological anthropology in which ideas of 'partiality' and 'practical adequacy' provide a way out of the impasse of relativism which is implied by postmodernism and the related abandonment of a concern with 'truth'. Ideas such as 'aptness' and 'faithfulness' enable us to re-establish empirical foundations without having to espouse a simple realism which has been rightly criticized. Ideas taken from ethnomethodology, particularly the way we bootstrap from 'practi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Anthropological Theory Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 209-231
- Publication date:
- 2009-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-2641
- ISSN:
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1463-4996
- Source identifiers:
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295591
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:295591
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-17
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- Copyright holder:
- SAGE Publications
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2009 SAGE Publications. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Anthropological Theory June 2009 vol. 9 no. 2 209-231 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved.
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