Anthropology in the meantime : experimental ethnography, theory, and method for the twenty-first century

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Anthropology in the meantime : experimental ethnography, theory, and method for the twenty-first century

Michael M.J. Fischer

(Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices)

Duke University Press, 2018

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Bibliography: p. [391]-427

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Description

In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history and inventory of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Fischer presents anthropology in the meantime as a methodological injunction to do ethnography that examines how the pieces of the world interact, fit together or clash, generate complex unforeseen consequences, reinforce cultural references, and cause social ruptures. Anthropology in the meantime requires patience, constant experimentation, collaboration, the sounding-out of affects and nonverbal communication, and the conducting of ethnographically situated research over longitudinal time. Perhaps above all, anthropology in the meantime is no longer anthropology of and about peoples; it is written with and for the people who are its subjects. Anthropology in the Meantime presents the possibility for creating new narratives and alternative futures.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority 1 Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime 1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance 39 2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads 49 3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads 79 Part II. Ground-Truthing 4. Violence and Deep Play 99 5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal 114 6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation 130 Part III. Tone and Tuning 7. Health Care in India 161 8. Hospitality 186 9. Anthropology and Philosophy 198 Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities 10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing 233 11. Recalling Writing Culture 258 12. Anthropological Modes of Concern 276 Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene 298 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 349 Bibliography 391 Index 429

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  • NCID
    BB27092088
  • ISBN
    • 9781478000402
    • 9781478000556
  • LCCN
    2018005826
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Durham ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    452 p.
  • Size
    23-24 cm
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