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Are there anthropological problems? (2023)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. (2023). Are there anthropological problems?. In P. Heywood, & M. Candea (Eds.), Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (25-44). Cornell University Press

Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (2023)
Book
Heywood, P., & Candea, M. (Eds.). (2023). Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Cornell University Press

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it... Read More about Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation.

Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P., & Reed, A. (2023). Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 67(3), 45-57. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670303

This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualisation and abstraction both within and beyond the realm of the moral. We highlight some of the criticisms anthropologists have made of... Read More about Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas.

A Thought Experiment in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2023). A Thought Experiment in the Wild. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 67(3), 118-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2023.670311

This paper aims to complicate the opposition between ‘thick description’ and ‘thin’ thought experiments by constructing a thought experiment of its own. It compares the use of examples – thick and thin – in the work of Malinowski and Ludwig Wittgenst... Read More about A Thought Experiment in the Wild.

Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini” (2023)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2023). Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”. American Anthropologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13850

Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that... Read More about Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”.

The two faces of Michel Foucault (2023)
Book Chapter
Heywood, P. (2023). The two faces of Michel Foucault. In J. Laidlaw (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics (130-154). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591249.005

This chapter examines the extensive influence of the thought of Michel Foucault on the development of the anthropology of ethics. In doing so it treats a classic question that has preoccupied biographers of Foucault and chroniclers of his philosophy,... Read More about The two faces of Michel Foucault.