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Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods
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Anthropologists often tend to stress the particularities of the cases they study through
intense ethnographic encounter. This provides an extremely nuanced approach to
process and practice that has become the trade mark of our discipline. It leads us to use
complexity as an argument to eschew describing simple laws of movement for social
processes. I find this a growing trend that places us in a politically irrelevant position.
Often, the ethnographic detail appears as a free floating crystallization of contingent assemblages of items, agents, and connections devoid of historical logic. The problem,
then, is why and how to explain human projects that seek to change the connections that
exist into something different. Designing an image of the future and of the logical
process leading to it is, fundamentally, creating the conditions of possibility for its
transformation (Bourdieu 2003). The other, often forgotten, leg of anthropological
enquiry is comparison which enables similarities to emerge while it renders differences
meaningful in the larger picture. Through the pieces in this volume we begin to perceive
a thread of commonalities that, paradoxically, serve to underscore the centrality of the
differences that are played out as well as produced by the various actors involved in
industrial production.
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NAROTZKY, Susana. Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods. _Capítol del llibre: Narotzky_. S. and Goddard. Vol. (Eds, núm. New York: Routledge, pàgs. 2017. [consulta: 3 de desembre de 2025]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/135177]