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+title: "Anthropology as irony and philosophy, or the knots in simple ethnographic projects"
+authors:
+  - "Michael Carrithers"
+external_url: "https://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.3.010"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-lUS3mfYvOt5zio58qqmW6WFPNWb6Ihk/view?usp=drivesdk"
+status: featured
+course: intercultural
+tags:
+  - anthropology
+  - writing
+year: 2014
+journal: "HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory"
+publisher: "University of Chicago Press"
+address: "Chicago, IL"
+volume: 4
+number: 3
+pages: "117--142"
+---
+
+> ... and he does all this by forcing us past our accustomed conceptual language to unaccustomed words, words that gain vividness and specificity by the contrast with that accustomed language.
+
+Thirty one years after the publication of *The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka*, the author reflects on its public life and on the philosophical nature of anthropology books in general.