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Subject(s)

• Anthropology [Browse]
• Anthropologists [Browse]

Editor

• Meyers, Todd [Browse]

Series

• African intellectuals. [More in this series]
• African intellectuals: intergenerational conversations series [More in this series]

Summary note

The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is a collection of essays on the work of Pamela Reynolds. The essays take cues from Reynolds' decades-long contributions to the field of anthropology in different ways. The authors weave Reynolds' groundbreaking scholarship on the anthropology of childhood--of labour, of family, of resistance, justice, war and suffering--through the terms of their own work, in places and contexts that may at first appear quite distant from the villages of Zimbabwe and townships of South Africa that feature in Reynolds' ethnographies. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is about anthropologists stretching in thought and practice toward one another, between generations, toward the people encountered in the field, through worlds entered and departed, and how, in turn, these worlds lean into our own. At the core of each essay is a question about how we learn, how we pass lessons on, how we assume the mantle of anthropology for understanding the contemporary world--something that often requires folding intellectual friendships into the equipment of our practice. The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another demonstrates how a master anthropologist has come to shape the priorities of others, in terms that are both creative and aware.

Notes

"A collection of essays on the work of Pamela Reynolds."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

• "Pamela Reynolds: CV & selected bibliography": pages 127-134.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Foreword / Francis B. Nyamnjoh
• Editor's note / Todd Meyers
• 1. Index cards, injunctions and independence : thoughts on relationship / Fiona C. Ross
• 2. Cuts of various depths : a few scenes of learning from Pamela Reynolds / Todd Meyers
• 3. Anthropology and the development of conscience : reflections on the work of Pamela Reynolds / Thomas Cousins
• 4. The ungovernable and dangerous : children, sexuality, and anthropology / Vaibhav Saria
• 5. An anthropology of forms that speak : justice, knowledge, technique / Stefanos Geroulanos
• 6. The anthropologist fashions and refashions, is fashioned and refashioned / Todd Meyers talks with Pamela Reynolds
• 7. Afterword / Pamela Reynolds.

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ISBN

9956-763-71-3

OCLC

1019656181

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