<ul> <li> Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes.</li> <li> On the one plane a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it.</li> <li> On the other&mdash;anthropo-philosophical it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.</li></ul>