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Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathos: Regimes of Truth in an Anthropology of Hypocrisy
Author(s) -
Reyna Stephen P.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01122.x
Subject(s) - hypocrisy , skepticism , argument (complex analysis) , sociology , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , theology , biochemistry , chemistry
This article employs A ntonionian skepticism to address an infelicity dogging F oucault's standpoint on regimes of truth ( ROT s). In the process of doing this it formulates the nuts and bolts of an anthropology of hypocrisy to distinguish the truths from the “truths” of ROT s. Argument proceeds by first exploring Foucault's understanding of ROT s. Next it considers the work of three contributors to this issue that interrogate different aspects of the L iberal ROT helping to pinpoint a problem with F oucault's usage of the term. Finally, it suggests how an anthropology of hypocrisy makes F oucault's approach more Boasian and more useful.