Anthropology in the meantime : experimental ethnography, theory, and method for the twenty-first century / Michael M.J. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946- author.

Series:

Experimental futures.

Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Anthropology in the Meantime 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. Providing a history and inventory of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Fischer presents anthropology in the meantime as a methodological injunction to do ethnography that examines how the pieces of the world interact, fit together or clash, generate complex unforeseen consequences, reinforce cultural references, and cause social ruptures. Anthropology in the meantime requires patience, constant experimentation, collaboration, the sounding-out of affects and nonverbal communication, and the conducting of ethnographically situated research over longitudinal time. Perhaps above all, anthropology in the meantime is no longer anthropology of and about peoples; it is written with and for the people who are its subjects. Anthropology in the Meantime presents the possibility for creating new narratives and alternative futures.

Contents:

Prologue: changing modes of ethnographic authority

Ethnography in the meantime

Experimental ethnography in ink, light, sound, and performance

Ontology and metaphysics are false leads

Pure logic and typologizing are false leads

Ground-truthing

Violence and deep play

Amazonian ethnography and the politics of renewal

Ethnic violence, galactic polities, and the great transformation

Tone and tuning

Health care in India

Hospitality

Anthropology and philosophy

Temporalities and recursivities

Changing media of ethnographic writing

Recalling writing culture

Anthropological modes of concern

Epilogue: third spaces and ethnography in the anthropocene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478002222

1478002220

OCLC:

1026198631