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Abstract
This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production, considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from the tacit, phenomenological perspective of everyday practices of typification. Proposing what an “anthropology of types,” broadly construed and across these two scales, might look like, I examine the histories and uses of types and typological thinking in anthropology, highlighting the empirical, analytical, methodological, ethical, and political questions they have raised. I then describe the phenomenological foundations of typification, how sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists have approached it, and the accompanying challenges related to translation and representation. Finally, I review ethnographies of expert practices of type production, tracing the circuit of typification–typology–type and back again to show how forms of expertise institutionalize lay knowledge in ways that further solidify the misrecognition of types as natural, and examine visual and arts-based interventions that draw attention to these processes.
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FERREIRA SÓNIA. Anthropology of exile: Mapping territories of experience. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Affiliation(s)
- ANDREAS HACKL
- School of Social and Political Science; University of Edinburgh; 4.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD UK
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Dalsheim J. Exile at home: A matter of being out of place. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Joyce Dalsheim
- Cultural anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Israel/Palestine studying controversies over historical narratives, nationalism, religiosity and the secular
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- Ada Ingrid Engebrigtsen
- Norwegian Social Research NOVA/HIOA Centre for Labour and Welfare Research; University College of Oslo and Akershus; Oslo 0130 Norway
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