Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles (with Talia Dan-Cohen), and Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment.George E. Marcus is the Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Ethnography through Thick and Thin; Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration (with Fernando Mascarenhas); and Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (with Michael M. J. Fischer).James Faubion is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism.Tobias Rees is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Klappentext Conversations between two top anthropologists about the intellectual trends in contemporary anthropology and about the discipline's future as it continues to intersect with fields such as science studies. Zusammenfassung Features a series of conversations about the past! present! and future of anthropological knowledge and practice by two anthropology theorists. This work focuses on contemporary challenges to how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Tobias Rees 1 Dialogue I: Anthropology in Motion 13 Dialogue II: After Writing Culture 33 Dialogue III: Anthropology Today 45 Dialogue IV: The Anthropology of the Contemporary 55 Dialogue V: In Search of (New) Norms and Forms 73 Dialogue VI: Of Timing and Texts 93 Dialogue VII: Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary 105 Afterword / Tobias Rees 115 Notes 123 Index 135...
