The Explanatory Power of the Concept of Embodiment in Anthropology

As part of the author's cumulative research on the types of explanation, the structure of explanation and the explanatory capacity of key concepts in sociocultural anthropology, this paper looks at the concept of embodiment. The relevance of reappraising the explanatory power of this concept i...

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Autor principal:	Nina Kulenović
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2021
Materias:	embodiment anthropology explanation explanatory power Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:46bf50518d2a491d860036f4691ab1b32021-12-02T17:02:40ZThe Explanatory Power of the Concept of Embodiment in Anthropology10.21301/eap.v16i2.10353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/46bf50518d2a491d860036f4691ab1b32021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1131https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 As part of the author's cumulative research on the types of explanation, the structure of explanation and the explanatory capacity of key concepts in sociocultural anthropology, this paper looks at the concept of embodiment. The relevance of reappraising the explanatory power of this concept is manifold, above all on the interpretive, conceptual and paradigmatic level. Research suggests that the concept of embodiment – although very popular, commonly used in very influential scholarly monographs and academic papers, and even proposed as the cornerstone of a "new paradigm for anthropology" – has a very limited explanatory capacity. It seems that its use in no way contributes to anthropological argumentation on the level of explanation – neither cumulatively nor in terms of recontextualisation. Namely, it turns out that by deleting the word "embodiment" from the analyzed arguments nothing would be lost, and that the anthropological explanatory apparatus developed within the anthropology of the body, the anthropology of gender and the anthropology of kinship – whose use precedes contemporary popular uses of the concept of embodiment – does not have a smaller scope in terms of explanatory power. Nina KulenovićUniversity of Belgradearticleembodimentanthropologyexplanationexplanatory powerAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 16, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	As part of the author's cumulative research on the types of explanation, the structure of explanation and the explanatory capacity of key concepts in sociocultural anthropology, this paper looks at the concept of embodiment. The relevance of reappraising the explanatory power of this concept is manifold, above all on the interpretive, conceptual and paradigmatic level. Research suggests that the concept of embodiment – although very popular, commonly used in very influential scholarly monographs and academic papers, and even proposed as the cornerstone of a "new paradigm for anthropology" – has a very limited explanatory capacity. It seems that its use in no way contributes to anthropological argumentation on the level of explanation – neither cumulatively nor in terms of recontextualisation. Namely, it turns out that by deleting the word "embodiment" from the analyzed arguments nothing would be lost, and that the anthropological explanatory apparatus developed within the anthropology of the body, the anthropology of gender and the anthropology of kinship – whose use precedes contemporary popular uses of the concept of embodiment – does not have a smaller scope in terms of explanatory power.
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The Explanatory Power of the Concept of Embodiment in Anthropology

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