Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be - Learning Anthropology''s Method in a Time of Transition

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University. He is the author of The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era; Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture; and Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy. James Faubion is the Radoslav Tsanoff Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of An Anthropology of Ethics, The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today, and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism. George E. Marcus is Chancellor¿s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is coauthor of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences and coeditor of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. He was the founding editor of Cultural Anthropology.

Summary

This volume argues that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory—a matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of professional ideology—operates in anthropology and related fields today.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Boyer, Dominic Faubion Boyer, James D. Faubion, George E Marcus
• Assisted by: Dominic Boyer (Editor), James D. Faubion (Editor), George E. Marcus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781501700088
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0008-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie