Comments on: Anthropology for Radical Optimism https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-for-radical-optimism/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Judith Beyer https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-for-radical-optimism/#comment-105682 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:09:33 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35864#comment-105682 In reply to John McCreery.

Dear John, thank you for your support! (everybody: We have a “donate” button on our website and welcome any amount!)
And that is an interesting question, indeed. Next to “of” and “for” there’s also “to” – As we wrote in our editorial: “To move forward, we must believe that there is something to move forward to.” We are more inclined to think of anthropology in terms of praxis than as function, maybe. The being of anthropology is in the doing …

]]> By: John McCreery https://allegralaboratory.net/anthropology-for-radical-optimism/#comment-105681 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:49:27 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=35864#comment-105681 I am happy to be a regular (monthy) small donor to Allegra. The “for”. in “An anthropology for radical optimism” reminds me of Clifford Geertz’s “models-of” and “models-for” and the proposition that religion exists to make the latter appear to be a function of the former.Could the same be said of the anthropology that Allegra proposes?

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