James Boon
Appreciation and an Invitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2430647 |
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| Authors | J Peacock (0000-0003-2028-1471, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1175-1187 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2017.0066 |
| OpenAlex | W2786102070 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In the text that follows, I will attempt to appreciate the work of my former student James Boon by offering some reflections on three images or themes from his copious writings: the bride as widow, colonialists living in Bali, and "museums make me sad." I then expand on my interpretation of these three images, drawing on memory and connections to other themes in our field. Next, I invite Boon and his intellectual successors to consider one implication, namely how an ecological or "ecozoic" perspective could broaden the socio-cultural analysis Boon offers. I finish by framing Boon's perspective by biographical, personal, and historical reflections on the circumstances that informed his work and development as a scholar, at least to the extent that such circumstances intersected with my own
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Media studies · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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