Reflecting on Reflexivity The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

Preface
Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood
Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts

SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS

Chapter 1. Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity
Terry Evens

Chapter 2. The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field
Don Handelman

Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Non-Locality of Ritual Meaning
Koenraad Stroeken

Chapter 4. Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer
Christopher Roberts

SECTION II: REFLEXIVITY, PRACTICE, AND EMBODIMENT

Chapter 5. Wittgenstein's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse
Horacio Ortiz

Chapter 6. Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity
Paul Schissel

Chapter 7. Perfect Praxis in Akido-A Reflexive Body-Self
Einat Bar-On Cohen

SECTION III: REFLEXIVITY, SELF, AND OTHER

Chapter 8. Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader
Paul Clough

Chapter 9. Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking
René Devisch

SECTION IV: REFLEXIVITY, DEMOCRACY, AND GOVERNMENT

Chapter 10. The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies
Yaron Ezrahi

Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science
Terry Evens

Index