Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

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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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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	09 mai 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822375654
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	21 Mo

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Writing Culture and the life of anthropology

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Wrîtîng Cuture and

the Lîfe of Anthropoogy

Orîn Starn, edîtor

duke universi ty pr e s sDurham and London2015

Cover art: (eft to rîght) Nîck Cave, Soundsuît,2009, mîxed medîa,72×221/8înches. Nîck Cave,Soundsuît, 2006, mîxed medîa încudîng buttons, uphostery, meta, and mannequîn; 78×26×14înches. Nîck Cave, Soundsuît,2009, mîxed medîa, 74×24×21înches. A © Nîck Cave. Photos by James Prînz Photography. Courtesy of the artîst and Jack Shaînman Gaery, New York.

Lîbrary of Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Wrîtîng cuture and the îfe of anthropoogy / Orîn Starn, edîtor. pages cm Incudes bîbîographîca references and îndex. isbn978-0-8223-5862-6(hardcover : ak. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5873-2(pbk. : ak. paper) isbn978-0-8223-7565-4(e-book) 1. Communîcatîon în ethnoogy. 2. Ethnoogy—Authorshîp. 3. Anthropoogy—Authorshîp.i. Starn, Orîn. gn307.7.W752015306.01—dc232014036268

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Introductîon,Orîn Starn

Chapter 1.Feeîng Hîstorîca,James Cîfford

Contents

Chapter 2.The Legacîes ofWrîtîng Cutureand the Near Future of the Ethnographîc Form: A Sketch,George E. Marcus

Chapter 3.Between Hîstory and Coîncîdence: Wrîtîng Cuture în theAnnua Revîew of Anthropoogy, ca.1982,Rîchard Hander

Chapter 4.Tîme, Camera, and the (Dîgîta) Pen: Wrîtîng Cuture Operatîng Systems1.0–3.0,Mîchae M. J. Fîscher

Chapter 5.Kînky Empîrîcîsm,Danîyn Rutherford

Chapter 6.Ethnography în Late Industrîaîsm,Kîm Fortun

Chapter 7.Exceente Zona Socîa,Mîchae Taussîg

Chapter 8.Ethnography Is, Ethnography Aîn’t,John L. Jackson Jr.

Chapter 9.From Vîage to Precarîous Anthropoogy,Anne Aîson

Chapter 10.Kînshîp by Other Means,Chares Pîot

Chapter 11.Dyîng Words,Kamaa Vîsweswaran

Chapter 1 2.Precarîty’s Forms,Katheen Stewart

Chapter 13.Wrîtîng Cuture (or Somethîng Lîke That), Hugh Rafles

Bîbîography

Contrîbutors

Index

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introduCtion

Orîn Starn

“It’s a trap,” Emînem warns us agaînst dweîng too much în the past. “Fuck  my astCdthat shîts în the trash.” It’s hard to dîsagree atogether wîth the agîng hîp-hop megastar. Our modern pîetîes enshrîne rememberîng as our mora duty and a therapeutîc necessîty for îndîvîduas and natîons aîke. But sometîmes, as others before Emînem have aso suggested, forgettîng may not be such a bad thîng. Nîetz-sche caîmed cows are happîer than peope because they can’t remember anythîng that happened more than a few mînutes before. Then agaîn, ît may not be wîse to take cows entîrey for our mode. We anthropoogîsts, when we do bother to ook back, sometîmes ean on canned hîstorîes about compîcîty wîth coonîaîsm and other rea and îmagîned dîs-cîpînary faîîngs. Our tendency îs to adopt an amost chîdîsh enchantment wîth the atest trendy theorîes, theorîsts, and topîcs. It’s a mark of vîtaîty, and yet ît can aso eave one puzzîng over just what waters the patched-up schooner of anthropoogy has crossed and where ît may be headed next. Thîs coectîon îs about anthropoogy’s past, present, and possîbe future ports of ca. A spîrît of retrospectîon,paceMarsha Mathers, gave rîse to the project în the irst pace. In1986, the year of Haey’s comet and the irstibmaptop, perhaps the sînge most înluentîa anthropoogy book în recent de-cades appeared:Wrîtîng Cuture: The Poetîcs and Poîtîcs of Ethnography.As the twenty-ifth annîversary of the book’s pubîcatîon neared (and, as these thîngs do, soon passed), ît provîded an occasîon for învîtîng the edîtors, George Marcus and James Cîfford, and a group of eadîng anthropoogîsts  to offer theîr thoughts about the book and îts egacîes. Theîr by turns wîst-fu, optîmîstîc, eusîve, fragmentary, programmatîc, and provocatîve essays about the ied then and now come together în thîs book.

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