T M S Evens
Biographic Data
| ID | 11503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T M S Evens |
| GIVEN NAMES | T M S |
| FAMILY NAME | Evens |
| SIGNATURE | EVENS T M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Manchester School
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to addre…
Twins are Birds and a Whale is a Fish, a Mammal, a Submarine
Refuting the rationalist implication that the Nuer statement “twins are birds“ is dumb, Evans-Pritchard held that the statement should be taken as a figure of speech. Against his interpretation, I argue that the Nuer, at the time of Evans-Pritchard's research, understood their statement to be true in an ordinary sense. In effect, my argument continues to suppose that the perception of the world implicit in the Nuer statement differs in a fundamen…
Shapira, Reuven
Anthropos , Seite 710 - 712
Two Kinds of Rationality
Dualism And Anthropology
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
The Manchester School
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to addre…
Preface
The essays composing this section vary in their purport and approach, but nonetheless address in common a number of questions that cut across at least any two of the essays, thus exhibiting what Wittgenstein spoke of as family resemblance for the lot. These include the question of dualism, of the relation between the micro and macro realms of social life, of the differences among the variants of the Manchester case method, of the determination of…
Preface
to the new Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, with the intention of founding a new department.At the time, he was teaching at Oxford, in Evans-Pritchard's department.During the visit there of a Dutch colleague, Gluckman was introduced to him as leaving shortly for Manchester.He responded: "Ah, in the same way as X has left the department at ______ to go to ______."Evans-Pritchard remarked: "No, not in the same way.X is …
Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis
This essay argues that the Manchester case study method or situational analysis has theoretical implications more radical than Gluckman was in a position to see, implications bearing on the nature of the reality of society. In effect, the essay is an anthropological exercise in ontology. It maintains that the problems situational analysis was designed to address were integral to, and hence irresolvable in, the Durkheimian social ontology then cha…
The Ethnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice
The ethnographic extended-case method, also known as situational analysis, was a diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology—and today it remains an ethnographic practice of remarkable relevance and promise. Originated by Max Gluckman, the method was intended to use case material in a highly original way. Instead of citing examples from ethnography in apt illustration of general ethnographic and analytical statements, as was common…
Preface—Extended-Case Studies
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly 'generalized,' remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontolog-ical presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) h…
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly “generalized,” remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontological presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) hu…
Messengers of Divinity in Nuerland Nuer Prophets
Two Kinds of Rationality
Two Kinds of Rationality was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Beginning with a discussion of mind-body dualism in social anthropology, Evens presents a profound theory of human conduct that deploys notions of hierarchy and practice. He uses the case study of an Israe…
Colonial Romance Among the Nuer Governing the Nuer
Transcendence in Society
Introduction, T.M.S. Evens and James L. Peacock contradictions in feminist practice - individualism and collectivism in a feminist health centre, Sandra Morgen sorcery salvation and the politics of death in a lowland New Guinea society - a case-study of a modernizing culture and consciousness, Christopher Darrouzet charisma, martyrdom and liberation in Southern Honduras, Jefferson C. Boyer children in church - a case of transcendence and accommod…
Kibbutz Goshen
The Nuer Incest Prohibition and the Nature of Kinship
The paradox of Nuer feud and the leopard-skin chief
It is argued that the study of Nuer feud discloses an existential dilemma the universal aspect of which is suggested by its similarity to the so-called prisoner's dilemma. However, out of keeping with the rationalist spirit in which the prisoner's dilemma is typically presented in Western academic discourse, the Nuer do not attempt to resolve their dilemma once and for all, but instead temporize it: through a creative (arational) move, representa…
Mind, Logic, and the Efficacy of the Nuer Incest Prohibition
On the Social Anthropology of Religion
Two Concepts of 'Society as a Moral System
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
Mind, Logic, and the Efficacy of the Nuer Incest Prohibition
The Predication of the Individual in Anthropological Interactionism
In Memory of Max GluckmanTheories of strategic interaction have been offered as a cure for the failings of structural functionalism and currently enjoy considerable influence in social anthropology. Employing in illustration Barth's Models of Social Organization, this essay argues that interactionism's focus on the individual, rather than on the group, issues from the presupposition of physicalism and makes it impossible to account for values and…
Two Concepts of 'Society as a Moral System
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly “generalized,” remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontological presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) hu…
The Nuer Incest Prohibition and the Nature of Kinship
Leopard Skins and Paper Tigers
Critique du re-examen recent de l'organisation politique des Nuer par Peter Gruel (1971). Selon P. Gruel, E. Evans-Pritchard analyse le chef a peau de leopard comme un personnage religieux officiel, sans pouvoir, alors qu'il est en realite le leader puissant d'une coalition
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly 'generalized,' remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontolog-ical presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) h…
The paradox of Nuer feud and the leopard-skin chief
It is argued that the study of Nuer feud discloses an existential dilemma the universal aspect of which is suggested by its similarity to the so-called prisoner's dilemma. However, out of keeping with the rationalist spirit in which the prisoner's dilemma is typically presented in Western academic discourse, the Nuer do not attempt to resolve their dilemma once and for all, but instead temporize it: through a creative (arational) move, representa…
Kibbutz Goshen
Colonial Romance Among the Nuer Governing the Nuer
On the Social Anthropology of Religion
The Predication of the Individual in Anthropological Interactionism
In Memory of Max GluckmanTheories of strategic interaction have been offered as a cure for the failings of structural functionalism and currently enjoy considerable influence in social anthropology. Employing in illustration Barth's Models of Social Organization, this essay argues that interactionism's focus on the individual, rather than on the group, issues from the presupposition of physicalism and makes it impossible to account for values and…
Leopard Skins and Paper Tigers
Critique du re-examen recent de l'organisation politique des Nuer par Peter Gruel (1971). Selon P. Gruel, E. Evans-Pritchard analyse le chef a peau de leopard comme un personnage religieux officiel, sans pouvoir, alors qu'il est en realite le leader puissant d'une coalition
On the Social Anthropology of Religion
Two Concepts of 'Society as a Moral System
Mind, Logic, and the Efficacy of the Nuer Incest Prohibition
The paradox of Nuer feud and the leopard-skin chief
It is argued that the study of Nuer feud discloses an existential dilemma the universal aspect of which is suggested by its similarity to the so-called prisoner's dilemma. However, out of keeping with the rationalist spirit in which the prisoner's dilemma is typically presented in Western academic discourse, the Nuer do not attempt to resolve their dilemma once and for all, but instead temporize it: through a creative (arational) move, representa…
The Nuer Incest Prohibition and the Nature of Kinship
Kibbutz Goshen
Transcendence in Society
Introduction, T.M.S. Evens and James L. Peacock contradictions in feminist practice - individualism and collectivism in a feminist health centre, Sandra Morgen sorcery salvation and the politics of death in a lowland New Guinea society - a case-study of a modernizing culture and consciousness, Christopher Darrouzet charisma, martyrdom and liberation in Southern Honduras, Jefferson C. Boyer children in church - a case of transcendence and accommod…
Two Kinds of Rationality
Two Kinds of Rationality was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Beginning with a discussion of mind-body dualism in social anthropology, Evens presents a profound theory of human conduct that deploys notions of hierarchy and practice. He uses the case study of an Israe…
Colonial Romance Among the Nuer Governing the Nuer
Messengers of Divinity in Nuerland Nuer Prophets
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly 'generalized,' remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontolog-ical presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) h…
Bourdieu and the Logic of Practice
I argue here that in the end Bourdieu's theory of practice fails to overcome the problem on which it expressly centers, namely, subject-object dualism. The failure is registered in his avowed materialism, which, though significantly “generalized,” remains what it says: a materialism. In order to substantiate my criticism, I examine for their ontological presuppositions three areas of his theoretical framework pertaining to the questions of (1) hu…
Preface
The essays composing this section vary in their purport and approach, but nonetheless address in common a number of questions that cut across at least any two of the essays, thus exhibiting what Wittgenstein spoke of as family resemblance for the lot. These include the question of dualism, of the relation between the micro and macro realms of social life, of the differences among the variants of the Manchester case method, of the determination of…
Preface
to the new Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, with the intention of founding a new department.At the time, he was teaching at Oxford, in Evans-Pritchard's department.During the visit there of a Dutch colleague, Gluckman was introduced to him as leaving shortly for Manchester.He responded: "Ah, in the same way as X has left the department at ______ to go to ______."Evans-Pritchard remarked: "No, not in the same way.X is …
Some Ontological Implications of Situational Analysis
This essay argues that the Manchester case study method or situational analysis has theoretical implications more radical than Gluckman was in a position to see, implications bearing on the nature of the reality of society. In effect, the essay is an anthropological exercise in ontology. It maintains that the problems situational analysis was designed to address were integral to, and hence irresolvable in, the Durkheimian social ontology then cha…
The Ethnographic Praxis of the Theory of Practice
The ethnographic extended-case method, also known as situational analysis, was a diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology—and today it remains an ethnographic practice of remarkable relevance and promise. Originated by Max Gluckman, the method was intended to use case material in a highly original way. Instead of citing examples from ethnography in apt illustration of general ethnographic and analytical statements, as was common…
Preface—Extended-Case Studies
The Manchester School
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to addre…
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
Anthropology as Ethics
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the N…
Two Kinds of Rationality
Dualism And Anthropology
Shapira, Reuven
Anthropos , Seite 710 - 712
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