To anthropology, from meat prison

Journal article

The present essay, begun just before and written during the 2020 UK lockdown owing to the COVID19 pandemic, draws first on the philosophical anthropology of Plessner (1970, 2019) and Wentzer (2017), finding ground in the notion of responsiveness. Then, working in a broadly autophenomenological manner inspired by a mundane encounter with television news, the force of a televisual scream is used to explore anthropology of and as responsiveness, culminating in a critique of the anthropological theory of moralities put forward by Jarrett Zigon (2007). What results is an intentionally ‘simplistic representation(s) of social reality' (Stoczkowski 2008: 351), certainly anthropology, but I argue that, at least minimally, a moralizing anthropology is required as a possibility within any anthropological theory of moralities.

Authors: Taylor-Green, B

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Anthropological Society of Oxford
• Journal: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-91
• Publication date: 2020-01-01
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-pmaeeeqez
• ISSN: 2040-1876
• Language: English
• Keywords: JASO