• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Anthropology as spiritual discipline
  • Contributor: Luhrmann, T. M.
  • Published: Wiley, 2024
  • Published in: American Ethnologist, 51 (2024) 1, Seite 24-27
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/amet.13244
  • ISSN: 0094-0496; 1548-1425
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  • Description: AbstractThis essay invites us to understand ethnography not only as a science‐like comparative enterprise but also as a spiritual discipline. This is because ethnography enables us to imagine other ways of living in the world. The fieldwork, the writing, and even the reading of ethnographies provide people with some external perspective on themselves. Ethnography thus allows people to develop a more a nuanced sense of what, for them, should constitute the good.