Open AccessOn ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference
Author(s) -
Aleksandar Bošković
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc0901083b
Subject(s) - premise , sociology , feminism , anthropology , colonialism , epistemology , social anthropology , cultural anthropology , key (lock) , social science , gender studies , philosophy , ecology , political science , law , biology
Starting from the premise that contemporary social sciences are involved in producing and chasing ghosts, the paper presents several key debates in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. One of them is the issue of colonialism, and the other one is the uneasy relationship between feminism and anthropology. Taking the paradigm of Strathern's 'partial connections,' it is claimed that the only way to increase our understanding of the world we live in, is accepting its complexities and ambiguities, and understanding contexts and concrete situations they arise from