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Book SynopsisKaushik Sunder Rajan proposes a reconceptualization of ethnography as a multisituated practice that speaks to the myriad communities of accountability and the demands of doing and teaching anthropology in the twenty-first century.
Trade Review“The remarkable transformations over the past thirty years in the nonetheless emblematic research process that still defines anthropologists have never been explored so comprehensively, so instructively, and so passionately by a gifted, imaginative teacher to those who become anthropologists today in a historically key department.” -- George E. Marcus, coeditor of * Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition *
"This challenging and stimulating monograph is intended for faculty involved in training graduate students in ethnographic practice. . . . Highly recommended." -- W. Kotter * Choice *
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Multisituated is a passionate and eloquent contribution to contemporary discussions about anthropology’s pasts, presents, and possible futures that deserves to be widely read and keenly debated." -- Stuart McLean * American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. A Problem, a Paradox, a Politics . . . and a Praxis 1
1. Scale 29
2. Comparison 57
3. Encounter 91
4. Dialogue 136
Conclusion. Toward a Diasporic Anthropology 169
Notes 189
References 229
Index 245
