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What Matters to Others: A High-Threshold Account of Joint Attention.
- Source :
- Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy; May2024, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p337-348, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- If only implicitly, social anthropology has long incorporated joint attention as a research technique employed in what anthropologists call "the field". This paper outlines the crucial role joint attention plays in anthropolgical fieldwork—specifically in Participant Observation—and advances the position that joint attention is a goal rather than a starting point of fieldwork practice. Exploring how anthropologists tentatively use attention as a methodological tool to understand other people's lifeworlds, this paper draws parallels between Participant Observation and ordinary everyday interactions, thus teasing out a view of joint attention as a goal to be reached only by means of knowing what matters to others in the context of the lifeworld they inhabit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01677411
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177220768
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10021-2