Anand Pandian

A Possible Anthropology

Methods for Uneasy Times

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Produktbeschreibung

Conceptualizing anthropology as a mode of practical and transformative inquiry, Anand Pandian stages an ethnographic encounter with the field in an effort to grasp its impact on the world and its potential for addressing and offering solutions to the profound crises of the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003755
• ISBN-10: 1478003758
• Artikelnr.: 56150205

Autorenporträt

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation and the coedited volume Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. An Ethnographer among the Anthropologists  1
1. The World at Hand: Between Scientific and Literary Inquiry  15
2. A Method of Experience: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Fieldwork  44
3. For the Humanity Yet to Come: Politics, Art, Fiction, Ethnography  77
Coda. The Anthropologist as Critic  110
Acknowledgments  123
Notes  127
Bibliography  141
Index  155