Buying pre-order items
Ebooks and Audiobook
You will receive an email with a download link for the ebook or audiobook on the publication date.
Payment
You will not be charged for pre-ordered books until they are available to be shipped. Pre-ordered ebooks will not be charged for until they are available for download.
Amending or cancelling your order
For orders that have not been shipped you can usually make changes to pre-orders up to 72 hours before the publishing date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
Description
What can a neurologist like Oliver Sacks teach us about anthropology? And how has anthropological thinking been quietly operating in his work all along?
An Anthropologist on Sacks reads Sacks as a profoundly anthropological thinker whose neurological case histories function as ethnographic encounters, grounded in attention, participation, narrative breadth, and ethical presence. Drawing on Sacks's published writings, correspondence, and lesser-read reflections, the book traces the implicit methodological and epistemic affinities between his medical practice and the anthropological imagination. It argues that Sacks's humanist science, characterized by an embrace of paradox, constitutes a mode of knowing that resists reduction, honors lived experience, and treats (neuro)diversity not as deficit but as a way of being in the world. Through close readings of his tales, prose, and methodological choices, An Anthropologist on Sacks makes a case for the enduring relevance of Sacks's approach to knowing: one attentive to complexity, ethically engaged with difference, and committed to holding incompatible truths together.
At once a critical intervention and a measured tribute, the book invites readers to reconsider Oliver Sacks as a remarkable writer whose work speaks with particular urgency to anthropology today-and to broader debates about how humane knowledge might still be relevant.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Anthropologia. Expanding Anthropology's Human
2. Methodologia. The Listener, the Observer, the Ethnographer
3. Difference. Advocacy and its Discontents
4. Exoticism revisited. All Sorts of Natives
5. Mediation. The Poetics and Politics of Reconciliation
6. Tropology. Writing the Other
7. Reflexivity. A Queer Take
Afterword
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781978767324 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
Related Titles
