Fischer Anthropology in the Meantime

Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0222-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

Providing a history of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Michael M. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of eight books, including Anthropological Futures; Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges; and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, all also published by Duke University Press.