“It’s Easy Once You Get Them Lit”: Contemporary Issues within Modern Tlingit IdentitySmokin’ Fish. Produced and written by Luke Griswold-Tergis. Directed by, Luke Griswold-Tergis and Cory Mann, edited by, Maureen Gosling. Additional directing, photography, and editing by, Manolo Turri; additional directing and photography by, Holly Gray. Executive producer, Jed Riffe, 2011.

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propriate that the focus is on the possibility of the autopoiesis of such a position, that such a subject not only endure but that one of the means of its duration be by way of a themitical conception of being the addressee of a claim to justness, a claim which could be heard, repeated, and practiced. Thus we come to what I think is the fundamental diagnostic challenge that opens up terrain for future work and that should be treated separately from the book’s model-theoretic fecundity: can reflection on the “ethical” transform breakdowns or interruptions of the “themitical”? Such breakdown may be as much routed in the indetermination of the terms of evaluative predication as in the acts evaluated themselves. An Anthropology of Ethics, as a scene of instruction, serves powerfully its aim of forming an anthropological practice with generalist intention. If this review has erred on the side of reproduction, it is because Faubion’s intervention deserves a wide audience in a discipline grappling with the conditions of existence of its objects and methods of inquiry. As I catch my breath, edified by the exercise, I defer the question of the autopoiesis of such a pedagogy, and thus of its transformation. Faubion leaves us, in conclusion, with a taste of the near future, which I recommend the reader to discover. We can look forward to what the domain of the anthropology of ethics will become.