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From lived experience to political representation: Rhetoric and landscape in the North York Moors (2015)
Journal Article
Emery, S., & Carrithers, M. (2016). From lived experience to political representation: Rhetoric and landscape in the North York Moors. Ethnography, 17(3), 388-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138115609380

Approaches to landscape are characterized by an unresolved distinction between political representation on the one hand and phenomenology on the other. In this paper we address this distinction by demonstrating how those living in close quarters with... Read More about From lived experience to political representation: Rhetoric and landscape in the North York Moors.

Anthropology as irony and philosophy, or the knots in simple ethnographic projects (2014)
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Carrithers, M. (2014). Anthropology as irony and philosophy, or the knots in simple ethnographic projects. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(3), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.3.010

In this essay on the idea of "anthropological knots" I lay out three closely related ideas. One is that the practice of ethnography may be regarded as being also the practice of philosophy, insofar as philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge about ours... Read More about Anthropology as irony and philosophy, or the knots in simple ethnographic projects.

Seriousness, irony, and the mission of hyperbole (2012)
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Carrithers, M. (2012). Seriousness, irony, and the mission of hyperbole. Religion and Society, 3(1), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2012.030104

Seriousness is achieved when a speaker effectively moves the audience according to his or her intentions. But seriousness is fragile and subject to countless vicissitudes, as illustrated in an encounter with the television evangelist Oral Roberts. I... Read More about Seriousness, irony, and the mission of hyperbole.

From inchoate pronouns to proper nouns: a theory fragment with 9/11, Gertrude Stein, and an East German Ethnography (2008)
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Carrithers, M. (2008). From inchoate pronouns to proper nouns: a theory fragment with 9/11, Gertrude Stein, and an East German Ethnography. History and Anthropology, 19(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757200802332228

Despite the elaborate means human beings deploy to render the world predictable and transparent, we nevertheless continually confront situations which are uncertain and opaque. This is especially so in the modern world, in which supralocal institutio... Read More about From inchoate pronouns to proper nouns: a theory fragment with 9/11, Gertrude Stein, and an East German Ethnography.

Story seeds and the inchoate (2007)
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Carrithers, M. (2009). Story seeds and the inchoate. Durham anthropology journal, 34-52

“Witnessing a shipwreck”: German figurations in facing the past to face the future (2006)
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Carrithers, M. (2006). “Witnessing a shipwreck”: German figurations in facing the past to face the future. Revista de antropología social, 15, 193-230

Tras la caída del Muro de Berlín, los alemanes del este elaboraron para sí mismos nuevas formas de orientación, sirviéndose de relatos construidos a diferentes escalas, desde los más personales hasta los públicos y oficiales. Los miembros de la oposi... Read More about “Witnessing a shipwreck”: German figurations in facing the past to face the future.

Anthropology as a moral science of possibilities (2005)
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Carrithers, M. (2005). Anthropology as a moral science of possibilities. Current Anthropology, 46(3), 433-456. https://doi.org/10.1086/428801

In a world of continued and expanding empire, does sociocultural anthropology in itself offer grounds for moral and social criticism? One line in anthropological thought leads to cultural relativism and an awareness that a cloud of alternative possib... Read More about Anthropology as a moral science of possibilities.

On polytropy : or the natural condition of spiritual cosmopolitanism in India : the Digambar Jain case (2000)
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Carrithers, M. (2000). On polytropy : or the natural condition of spiritual cosmopolitanism in India : the Digambar Jain case. Modern Asian Studies, 34(4), 831-861

As Jog Maya remarked to me, there are religions enough for everyone to choose, just like vegetables in the morning bazaar. Gellner 1992:70 The family was in continuous communion with a whole range of business associates, gods and men. Bayly 1983:390.