{"id":5091,"date":"2020-06-30T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:21:52","slug":"professor-joao-pina-cabrals-world-an-anthropological-examination-published-in-italian-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/06\/30\/professor-joao-pina-cabrals-world-an-anthropological-examination-published-in-italian-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jo\u00e3o Pina-Cabral&#8217;s World: An Anthropological Examination published in Italian translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, Professor of Social Anthropology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/552\/pina-cabral-joao-de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jo\u00e3o Pina-Cabral<\/a>, published a book called <em>World: An Anthropological Examination (HAU Books: University of Chicago Press).<\/em>\u00a0The book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture and how these shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in which they find themselves. The book proposes a new approach to personhood that integrates the interdisciplinary insights brought about by a dialogue between anthropology and studies of cognition, science and phenomenology.<\/p>\n<p>In July, it will be published in an Italian translation as part of a new editorial series about &#8216;Anthropology &amp; Philosophy&#8217; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quodlibet.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quodlibet Publishing House<\/a> of Macerata and Rome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does world mean for an ethnographer or an anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but do we really know what we mean by these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture, and how these shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in the midst of which they find themselves.<\/p>\n<p>As Pina-Cabral shows, recent decades have seen important shifts in the way we relate human thought to human embodiment\u2014the relation between\u00a0<em>how we think<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>what we are<\/em>. The book proposes a novel approach to the human condition: an anthropological outlook that is centered around the notions of personhood and sociality. Through a rich confrontation with ethnographic and historical material, this work contributes to the ongoing task of overcoming the theoretical constraints that have hindered anthropological thinking over the past century.<\/p>\n<p><em>World: An Anthropological Examination<\/em> is available in English as an <a href=\"https:\/\/haubooks.org\/world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open access publication<\/a>, but can also be <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/W\/bo25470772.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchased from the University of Chicago Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, Professor of Social Anthropology, Jo\u00e3o Pina-Cabral, published a book called World: An Anthropological Examination (HAU Books: University of Chicago Press).\u00a0The book explores the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/06\/30\/professor-joao-pina-cabrals-world-an-anthropological-examination-published-in-italian-translation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,6600,159350],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}