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A glimpse of Evans-Pritchard through his correspondence with Lowie and Kroeber [selection and introduction by P. Matthey]
Linguistic incompetence: giving an account of researching multilingually
This paper considers the place of linguistic competence and incompetence in the context of researching multilingually. It offers a critique of the concept of competence and explores the performative dimensions of multilingual research and its narration, through the philosophy of Judith Butler, and in particular her study Giving an account of oneself. It explores aspects of risk, justice, narrative limit and a morality of multilingualism in emergent multilingual research frameworks. These theoretical dimensions are explored through consideration of âlinguistically incompetentâ ethnographic work with refugees and asylum seekers, in contexts of hospitality and in life long learning research in the Gaza Strip, and of early attempts to learn new languages. The paper offers a prospect of a relational approach to researching multilingually and affirms the vulnerability at the heart of linguistic hospitality
Loudly sing cuckoo : More-than-human seasonalities in Britain
This research was funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, grant number AH/E009573/1.Peer reviewedPostprin
Understanding Anthropological Understanding: for a merological anthropology
In this paper I argue for a merological anthropology in which ideas of âpartialityâ and âpractical adequacyâ provide a way out of the impasse of relativism which is implied by post-modernism and the related abandonment of a concern with âtruthâ. Ideas such as âaptnessâ and âfaithfulnessâ enable us to re-establish empirical foundations without having to espouse a simple realism which has been rightly criticised. Ideas taken from ethnomethodology, particularly the way we bootstrap from âpractical adequacyâ to âwarrants for confidenceâ point to a merological anthropology in which we recognize that we do not and cannot know everything, but that we can have reasons for being confident in the little we know
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