Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

Preface Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS Chapter 1. Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity Terry Evens Chapter 2. The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field Don Handelman Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Non-Locality of Ritual Meaning Koenraad Stroeken Chapter 4. Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer Christopher Roberts SECTION II: REFLEXIVITY, PRACTICE, AND EMBODIMENT Chapter 5. Wittgenstein's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse Horacio Ortiz Chapter 6. Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity Paul Schissel Chapter 7. Perfect Praxis in Akido-A Reflexive Body-Self Einat Bar-On Cohen SECTION III: REFLEXIVITY, SELF, AND OTHER Chapter 8. Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader Paul Clough Chapter 9. Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking Rene Devisch SECTION IV: REFLEXIVITY, DEMOCRACY, AND GOVERNMENT Chapter 10. The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrahi Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science Terry Evens Index