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The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture: a reply to Philip Swift
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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Abstract
- This piece is a response to Philip Swift’s article in this issue, where he critiques issues concerning ethnographic theory raised in my book World: An anthropological examination. Inspired by the work of Donald Davidson, I argue that indeterminacy and underdetermination are conditions for all communication and that, in light of that, a position of metaphysical pluralism provides us with a better account of the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture than the kind of ontological pluralism that Swift espouses.
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6e44fe5e70ecddf6dc64711c510268fa