Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ajala's heads : reflections on anthropology and philosophy in a West African setting / Michael Jackson -- The parallel lives of philosophy and anthropology / Didier Fassin -- The difficulty of kindness : boundaries, time, and the ordinary / Clara Han -- Ethnography in the way of theory / João Biehl -- The search for wisdom : why William James still matters / Arthur Kleinman -- Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's philosophers / Ghassan Hage -- How concepts make the world look different : affirmative and negative genealogies of thought / Bhrigupati Singh -- Philosophia and anthropologia: reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran / Michael M. J. Fischer -- Ritual disjunctions : ghosts, philosophy, and anthropology / Michael Puett -- Henri Bergson in highland Yemen / Steven C. Caton -- Must we be bad epistemologists? Illusions of transparency, the opaque other, and interpretive foibles / Vincent Crapanzano -- Action, expression, and everyday life : recounting household events / Veena Das.