Affiliation:
1. Universität St. Gallen, Schweiz
Abstract
In this article, Usman Mahar reconceptualizes the Urdu termsáqurbá(nearness) andáqurbaniá(sacrifice) by coalescing them intoáqurb\aniá(nearness as a path to altruism). In doing so, he explores the practices and ethics of engagement in the field and its broader politics. By underscoring the methodological and epistemic value of sacrifice and altruism that demands nearness, i.e.áqurb\ani, Mahar diversifies the modes of engaged anthropology that "Global North" scholars have hitherto monopolized with their conceptions. Simultaneously, he reasons that within such methods of engaged and affective anthropology, there are seeds for unbinding humanitarian practices memetic of colonial relations.á
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