this short essay my goal is to venture into the role of story-telling and narratives in anthropological discipline and give one take on how it is possible to understand the given role. By drawing on Tim Ingold`s understanding of the processes of getting to know phenomena existing in the world around us I shortly discuss the idea of fieldwork as a cognitive journey defined by reflexivity. When doing fieldwork the anthropologist inevitably joins the stories shared with her with personal stories, meaning
This found in the totalitarian and regimes in Haiti, as well as, the lives in America. The betrayal of women by men could be part of Danticta’s own personal life experience bleeding into her novel. Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to America at age twelve, to settle in New York. The author being a female from Haiti is important to understand why she uses female protagonists in her novel that suffer
4. The socio –political life of the people of Umuaro in “Arrow of God” “Arrow of god” (1964), is set partly in Umuofia and partly in Lagos, it traces the fate of Okonkwo’s grandson Obi, who is marked by similar circularity like his grandfather. Achebe goes back to Igbo village life in the 1920’s before it has experienced any sustained contact with Europeans. The social life of the people had been gradually changing. They realized that they must come to terms with this alien rule, which was
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
will he experience practical freedom. In this Critique, Kant’s main purpose is not to draw the reader’s attention to actual moral experience, and the First Critique does not actually explain the moral philosophy. Kant’s ultimate aim is to demonstrate how metaphysics could be possible; in doing this, he constructs his transcendental philosophy. It seems Kant does not want to go further which has led critics to argue that Kant gave an unclear exposition here and in preceding writings, thereby muddling
Section I in Groundwork: It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will (Gr. 4:393) Good will includes several features: it is neither merely designed to make us happy, nor does it rely on the consequences of an act or unconditional good. While we may doubt the solidity of Kant’s theory as a way to support his definition of goodwill, for Kant’s practical philosophy, the real problem is how an agent