Nigel Rapport
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Rapport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPORT N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropology’s Philosophy
Anthropology's Philosophy
'I Am Here', Abraham Said
Migrants of Identity
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and separ…
Migrants of Identity
An Anthropology of the Enlightenment
An Anthropology of the Enlightenment
In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning. Using questions raised as part of the Enlightenment movement, this volume is structured around some of the key themes the Enlightenment fostered, including human…
Distortion
This text was, in essence, originally circulated as a concept paper at a workshop held at the University of Copenhagen, in January 2012, to inaugurate the project, ‘Optimal distortion: Ethnographic explorations of paradoxical connections’, that had been funded by the Danish Research Board for Culture and Communication (with us as its two principal investigators). By concluding the present volume with an ‘epi-pro-logue’ 1 that was written before t…
The Composition Of Anthropology
How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive glimpses…
Extraordinary Encounters
Extraordinary Encounters
Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is e…
Questions of Consciousness
Diverse world-views in an English village
Migrants of Identity
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and separ…
Diverse world-views in an English village
Distortion
This text was, in essence, originally circulated as a concept paper at a workshop held at the University of Copenhagen, in January 2012, to inaugurate the project, ‘Optimal distortion: Ethnographic explorations of paradoxical connections’, that had been funded by the Danish Research Board for Culture and Communication (with us as its two principal investigators). By concluding the present volume with an ‘epi-pro-logue’ 1 that was written before t…
Diverse world-views in an English village
Questions of Consciousness
Extraordinary Encounters
Extraordinary Encounters
Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is e…
Distortion
This text was, in essence, originally circulated as a concept paper at a workshop held at the University of Copenhagen, in January 2012, to inaugurate the project, ‘Optimal distortion: Ethnographic explorations of paradoxical connections’, that had been funded by the Danish Research Board for Culture and Communication (with us as its two principal investigators). By concluding the present volume with an ‘epi-pro-logue’ 1 that was written before t…
The Composition Of Anthropology
How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive glimpses…
An Anthropology of the Enlightenment
In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning. Using questions raised as part of the Enlightenment movement, this volume is structured around some of the key themes the Enlightenment fostered, including human…
An Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Migrants of Identity
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and separ…
Migrants of Identity
'I Am Here', Abraham Said
Anthropology’s Philosophy
Anthropology's Philosophy
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Science (3 works) · Enlightenment (2 works)