August 12, 2007
what kind of inquiry is conceptual inquiry?
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ARC has decided to intensify blog discussions about concept-work. Perhaps a good way to begin further explorations of concept work could be to discuss the difference between concept work and theory – between the kind of inquiry concept work is tailored for and the kind of inquiry that is driven by theoretical questions.
Last month I was invited to give a talk somewhere in Germany (formidable place, excellent research conditions, nice people). The aim was to make myself and my work known, to get in touch with German anthropology. I spent a couple of days there, presenting myself to various people (my talk was on the emergence of the global health movement but most of the time we talked about my dissertation, an anthropological analysis of the emergence of adult cerebral plasticity and the conceptual turbulences it caused in neurology). Read more »