Comments on: “I know of Malinowski’s despotism”: Mauss to Radcliffe-Brown /2016/10/21/i-know-of-malinowskis-despotism-mauss-to-radcliffe-brown/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: TIN Ant /2016/10/21/i-know-of-malinowskis-despotism-mauss-to-radcliffe-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-839626 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:41:19 +0000 /?p=20529#comment-839626 Oops, should be “WWI”.

]]> By: TIN Ant /2016/10/21/i-know-of-malinowskis-despotism-mauss-to-radcliffe-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-839625 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:39:14 +0000 /?p=20529#comment-839625 “The people who fill our theory readers are real people who lived vibrant, quirky lives. It is easy to reduce them to a set of ideas or to a stereotyped, essentialized colonizer. But in fact their ideas — and their colonialism! — were flesh and blood and richly particular.
“And they all knew each other.”

Agreed. Thanks Rex. I’ve long felt that this is one of the best (and most easy to miss) parts of aiming for a deeper understanding of “theory.” For more of these sorts of intriguing nuggets, check out Jane Guyer’s great new (Hau) translation of “The Gift” complete with its original journal context…Mauss has some great book/article reviews at the end of that seminal first-post-WWII issue.

http://haubooks.org/viewbook/the-gift/13_bm01

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