Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology
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Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

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Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

About this book

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future.  The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture" movement of the 1980s, consider its influences on ethnographic research and writing, and debate what counts as ethnography in a post-Writing Culture era. They address questions of ethnographic method, new forms the presentation of research might take, and the anthropologist's role. Exploring themes such as late industrialism, precarity, violence, science and technology, globalization, and the non-human world, this book is essential reading for those looking to understand the current state of anthropology and its possibilities going forward.

Contributors. Anne Allison, James Clifford, Michael M.J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Richard Handler, John L. Jackson, Jr., George E. Marcus, Charles Piot, Hugh Raffles, Danilyn Rutherford, Orin Starn, Kathleen Stewart, Michael Taussig, Kamala Visweswaran

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction, Orin Starn
  4. ChapterĀ 1. Feeling Historical, James Clifford
  5. Chapter 2. The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form: A Sketch, George E. Marcus
  6. Chapter 3. Between History and Coincidence: Writing Culture in the Annual Review of Anthropology, ca. 1982, Richard Handler
  7. Chapter 4. Time, Camera, and the (Digital) Pen: Writing Culture Operating Systems 1.0ā€“3.0, Michael M. J. Fischer
  8. ChapterĀ 5. Kinky Empiricism, Danilyn Rutherford
  9. ChapterĀ 6. Ethnography in Late Industrialism, Kim Fortun
  10. ChapterĀ 7. Excelente Zona Social, Michael Taussig
  11. ChapterĀ 8. Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ainā€™t, John L. Jackson Jr.
  12. ChapterĀ 9. From Village to Precarious Anthropology, Anne Allison
  13. ChapterĀ 10. Kinship by Other Means, Charles Piot
  14. ChapterĀ 11. Dying Worlds, Kamala Visweswaran
  15. ChapterĀ 12. Precarityā€™s Forms, Kathleen Stewart
  16. ChapterĀ 13. Writing Culture (or Something Like That), Hugh Raffles
  17. Bibliography
  18. Contributors
  19. Index