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Ethics of Sharing: A Situational Anthropology
Get PDFThis article introduces the special issue on ethics of sharing by way of a conceptual discussion of four key terms that animate the individual contributions: sharing, ethics, situation, and presence. Turning to situational analysis to hold fast the anthropological empirical commitment, each author takes as their point of departure a detailed description of empirical sharing situations. The aim is to bring this ethnographic attention to specific situations into conversation with recent anthropological debates on ethics that resonate with the growing interest and emerging literature on sharing. In a concluding reflection on the individual contributions, the article grapples with the problem of scale and makes efforts to relate the ethics of sharing to our present human condition as cohabitants of the shared environmental life-support system of one finite planet, Earth. It is this planetary horizon, we find, that adds a new urgency to the perennial ethical question of how one ought to live: what can this shared existential situation be said to demand of us
Shared Finitude: Intergenerational Death Awareness
Get PDFThis article develops the notion of intergenerational death awareness through a relational reading of finitude. I begin by discussing the different ways in which the philosophical canon has understood the relationship between death, subjectivity, and otherness. Drawing on an interview study with bereaved life partners and their experiences of ‘losing part of oneself’ following the death of the other, I seek to deconstruct this divide and illustrate how vital aspects of our experiences of finitude are inherently shared. In the present case, these others are often – apart from the lost partner – first and foremost the children one is responsible for. As a single parent, the primary source of relating to one’s own death is intergenerationally mediated through worrying and the sense of absolute responsibility for staying alive
Das geographische Traktat in der Weltgeschichte des Wäldä ʾAmid – Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
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Critical Edition (with translation) and Textual Analysis of Gädlä Yǝmʕatta
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The Diachronic Development of the Dǝggʷā: A Study of Texts and Manuscripts of Selected Ethiopic Antiphon Collections
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Digitale Landwirtschaft untersuchen. Method(olog)ische Überlegungen zu einem neuen Forschungsfeld
Get PDFDer Text geht am Beispiel einer explorativen Forschung zur Digitalisierung der Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz der Frage nach den methodologischen Erfordernissen zur Erforschung von Digitalisierungsprozessen und Digitalitäten nach. Es wird dafür plädiert die Veränderungen, die sich daraus ergeben, dass sich digitale Technologien in verschiedene Alltage einschreiben, als so fundamental zu betrachten, dass sich ontologische Fragen davon ableiten. Die Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft ist dafür ein fruchtbares Forschungsfeld, da sich hier Umordnungen in den Verhältnissen von Menschen, nicht-menschlichen Organismen und digitalen Technologien zeigen.Using the example of explorative research on the digitization of agriculture in Switzerland, the text elaborates on the methodological requirements for researching digitization processes and digitalities. It is argued that the changes that result from the fact that digital technologies are inscribed in various everyday lives should be viewed as so fundamental that ontological questions derive from them. Digitization in agriculture is a fertile field of research, which is showing changes in the relationships between people, non-human organisms and digital technologies
Sharing Your Hand: Unhelpful Help and the Ethics of Sharing in Mbuke, Papua New Guinea
Get PDFIn anthropological literature on gift exchange, Melanesia plays a major role since it is characterised by elaborate ceremonial exchange and reciprocity across the region. However, sharing is also widely found in Melanesia. In presentations of ethnographers, sharing has often been overshadowed by reciprocal exchange, but as described in this article, it is an integral part of the everyday in Melanesia. Not only is sharing part of solidarity among close kin but, as the case of boat building discussed in the article illustrates, it is also a mode of transfer with integrative force beyond kinship. I argue that sharing is particularly relevant in many contemporary settings such as the Mbuke Islands in Papua New Guinea that are characterised by work migration and an increasing dependency on the cash economy. These ongoing changes contribute to an increasingly uneven access to important resources. This, I argue, causes sharing to grow in scope and importance since it helps to even out growing inequalities. This is remarkable as the increasing influence of money has in other cases been considered as necessarily threatening sharing arrangements. In Mbuke it is the other way around: sharing is on the increase not despite growing monetarisation but, rather, because of it
Sharing Being: Alterity and Sharing as an Existential Question amongst Kyrgyz Christian Converts
Get PDFIn this article, my concern is the sharing of being, thus the existential question of what a person shares with others by virtue of her very ‘thrownness’, the circumstance of finding herself born as human in a particular place, into a particular family, and in a particular moment in history. Questions about what we share with others by virtue of our very being often confront us with a particular urgency in liminal situations where we are confronted with alterity amidst the familiar, when the world becomes porous and mouldable where we thought it was most solid. I explore how such questions become urgent amongst Kyrgyz people of Muslim background who have become evangelical Christians and who struggle to find a place of belonging that is welcoming to them and the values and virtues they see as central to who they are in a context where conversion to Christianity is seen as deeply controversial. Engaging with insights from the phenomenological tradition in philosophy and anthropology, I explore encounters with alterity as central to the efforts of Kyrgyz Christians to find a place of belonging in the world. I argue that we may experience the sharing of being most intensively when alterity draws us in, emplacing us in shared horizons of possibility whose contours are not yet clear
