Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method pdf

Nigel Rapport 觉得他来对地方了，可以进一步研究世界主义。 Rapport 已从苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学加入康考迪亚社会学和人类学系。 这是从一个被他描述为“海边的剑桥”的中世纪小镇转变为拥有城市校园的大城市的转变。 这位英国人类学家被任命为加拿大全球化、公民和社会正义方面的一级研究主席。 他还是康考迪亚国际研究中心的创始主任，发起研究计划和研讨会，促进对全球个人的权利、能力和经验的理解。

Reflections on Imagination: Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method pdf 奈杰尔·拉波特

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, their identities, their environments and their relations: the imagination. How do anthropologists use imagination in coming to know their research subjects? How might they, and how should they, use their imagination? And how do research subjects themselves understand, describe, justify and limit their use of the imagination? Presenting a range of case studies from a variety of locations including the UK, US, Africa, East Asia and South America, this collection offers a comparative exploration of how imagination has been conceptualized and understood in a range of analytical traditions, with regard to issues of both methodology and ethnomethodology. With emphasis not on abstraction but on imagination as activity, technique and subject situated in the middle of lives, Reflections on Imagination sheds new light on imagination as a universal capacity and practice - something to which human beings attend whenever they make sense of their environments and situate their life-projects in these environments - the means by which worlds come to be.