Description
Book SynopsisUsing the influential and controversial
Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in
Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology consider anthropology's past, document the current state of the field, and outline its future possibilities.
Trade Review"...this volume will interest those curious about what anthropology—or at least a strong current within it—means in the 21st century. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- F. W. Gleach * Choice *
"Orin Starn [et. al.] have produced a rich and thought-provoking collection of essays addressing the current and future state of anthropology..." -- Petra Rethmann * American Anthropologist *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Orin Starn 1
1. Feeling Historical / James Clifford 25
2. The Legacies of
Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form: A Sketch / George E. Marcus 35
3. Between History and Coincidence: Writing Culture in the
Annual Review of Anthropology, ca. 1982 / Richard Handler 52
4. Time, Camera, and the (Digital) Pen: Writing Culture Operating Systems 1.0-3.0 / Michael M. J. Fischer 72
5. Kinky Empiricism / Danilyn Rutherford 105
6. Ethnography in Late Industrialism / Kim Fortun 119
7. Excelente Zona Social / Michael Taussig 137
8. Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain't / John L. Jackson Jr. 152
9. From Village to Precarious Anthropology / Anne Allison 170
10. Kinship by Other Means / Charles Piot 189
11. Dying Worlds / Kamala Visweswaran 204
12. Precarity's Forms / Kathleen Stewart 221
13. Writing Culture (or Something Like That) / Hugh Raffles 228
Bibliography 237
Contributors 261
Index 265
