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The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture: a reply to Philip Swift

Authors :
Pina-Cabral, Joao
Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

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.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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