Description
Book SynopsisThis one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differentlyin all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology's rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By sati
Trade Review"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful."
* American Anthropologist *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
1. Sixteen Candles
2. Lost in Translation
3. And Everything Is Going Fine
4. Murmur of the Heart
5. Do the Right Thing
6. Rushmore
7. Toy Story
8. Shame
9. Life Is Sweet
10. The Graduate
11. My Own Private Idaho
12. Boyhood
13. Broken Flowers
14. Stagecoach
15. The Red Balloon
16. Planet of the Apes
Credits
Bibliography
Index
