Breaking the Frames

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Breaking the Frames is written by Pamela J. Stewart and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319471279 (ISBN 10) and 9783319471273 (ISBN 13).

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical aspiration for the discipline as a whole.