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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
Table des matières
Introduction / 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
A propos de l'auteur
Orin Starn is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal and Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes, and the coeditor of The Peru Reader, all also published by Duke University Press.
Résumé
Using 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.
