An education in anthropology (..) serves not just to furnish us with knowledge about the world, but to educate our perception of the world. It is to join with people in their speculations about what life might or could be like, in ways nevertheless grounded in a profound understanding of what life is like in particular times and places.


This project seeks to reconfigure the relation between practices of inquiry in the human sciences and the forms of knowledge to which they give rise. Its fundamental premise is that knowledge is not created through an encounter between minds furnished with concepts and theories, and a material world already populated with objects, but grows from the crucible of our practical and observational engagement with beings and things around us in the very processes of thought. Knowledge, we contend, comes from thinking with, from and through beings and things, not just about them.
(..) re-establishing anthropology as an art of inquiry, dedicated not to the interpretation of what has already come to pass but to finding pathways along which life can be carried on.


labi, ka man īpaši negribas (un arī būtu bail, hah, i am indeed proficient at doubting my own mental capacities) stāties uzreiz pēc maģistra doktorantūrā, citādi tagad būtu vēl visam pa virsu izmisīgi un aizrautīgi jāraksta pieteikums kādai no vietām tima projektā.