The last decade has witnessed a remarkable internationalization in conceptual history. Research covers more countries and languages than ever before, and there have been a number of very good comparative studies. This article reflects on the possibility of taking conceptual history beyond comparison. Like nations, languages can no longer be considered as naturally given entities, but have to be viewed as profoundly shaped by historical exchanges. This brings conceptual history into a dialogue with translation studies in a common attempt to unravel how equivalents between languages have been created by the actors.
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In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Introduction to special section 1
Anthropology and character
Adam Reed and Jon Bialecki
This introductory essay seeks to reintroduce character to anthropological inquiry. Although it has long been out of favour due to its historical associations with accounts that attempt to describe national or ethnic character, we argue that a return of the under‐theorised concept may be in order. The essay invites socio‐cultural anthropologists to describe the diverse contexts in which character is recognised or enacted, out‐there‐in‐the‐world, and to become far more reflective about the ways in which characterization is deployed in our ethnographic writing. At the same time, it asks how the concept might be fruitfully operationalized at a meta‐language level to reorient current fields of anthropological study, without necessarily resorting to any collective or individual essentialisms. To illustrate the utility of re‐interrogating the concept, the question is addressed to two specific fields in which one might expect a concept such as character to already feature strongly: the anthropology of ethics and the anthropology of Christianity. What does an ethnographic attention to the ways in which character gets attributed reveal? How differently might these and other fields look if anthropologists embraced the concept of character or rejected it more knowingly? Finally, the essay asks what kinds of recombination of insights an anthropology and character approach might enable.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 May 2018
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- Research Article
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- 159–167 (8 total)
My Words, My Literacy
Tracking of and Teaching through the On-Field Language Practices of Australian Indigenous Boys
David Caldwell, Nayia Cominos, and Katie Gloede
controlled and uncontrolled spoken and written class and online activities, so that students began by using their own language, and were gradually introduced to and practiced using the metalanguage of literacy. The second element was to embed activities in
Agonistic Interpretation
A New Paradigm in Response to Current Developments
Nicole Deufel
were constructed and what the underlying passions are, not the least in relation to identity and the respective sense of heritage. The meaning of British Empire is also an example of what Barthes identified as metalanguage ( Barthes 1957: 115
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 90–109 (20 total)
Concepts, Beliefs, and Their Constellations
A Proposal for Analytical Categories in the Study of Human Thought
Ilkka Kärrylä
. There have already been attempts toward a more unified meta-language for studying human thought, especially by philosophically oriented historians and social scientists such as Mark Bevir and Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen. According to Kuukkanen, there is little
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- 62–83 (22 total)
Monumental Misunderstandings
The Material Entextualization of Mutual Incomprehension in Sino-Mozambican Relations
Morten Nielsen and Mikkel Bunkenborg
small, vibrates, like a ripple in water, throughout the entire language. Thus all understanding is always at the same time a not-understanding.” 3 As argued by Webb Keane (2005: 72) , ordinary language contains metalanguage (reflexive language about
Jan Ifversen
a metalanguage of change; others are shared with the historical actors. The narratives and concepts of change are often inserted into larger philosophies of history—the grand narratives denounced since the 1980s. From the eighteenth century, history
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Brand of Brothers?
The Humboldt Forum and the Myths of Innocence
Jonathan Bach
is either temporally prior (childhood) or spatially separate (as in Eurocentric notions of “backward” others). If by myth we mean, following Barthes, a metalanguage that allows a particular story to exist outside of time—to seem so natural that its
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 100–111 (12 total)
Quarantime
Lockdown and the Global Disruption of Intimacies with Routine, Clock Time, and the Intensification of Time-Space Compression
Rebecca Irons
relationship that we have with it – a kind of intimacy that in ‘normal’ times may uncritically permeate reality. Within anthropology, Nancy Munn argues that a problem with ‘time’ is that it is notoriously ‘difficult to find a meta-language to conceptualize
Introduction
(De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference
Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Caroline E. Schuster
the Social Analysis of Material Things .” Language & Communication 23 , no. 3 : 409 – 425 . 10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00010-7 Keane , Webb . 2008 . “ Market, Materiality and Moral Metalanguage .” Anthropological Theory 8 , no. 1 : 27 – 42 . 10
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