In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew…mehr
In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is author of Islamism and Democracy in India (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent Irfan Ahmad Chapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom Hatsuki Aishima Chapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of Inquiry Arpita Roy Chapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold's Critique of Ethnography Jeremy F. Walton Chapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and Objectification Patrice Ladwig Chapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique Patrick Eisenlohr Chapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics In Irfan Ahmad Afterword Tim Ingold Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent Irfan Ahmad Chapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom Hatsuki Aishima Chapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of Inquiry Arpita Roy Chapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold's Critique of Ethnography Jeremy F. Walton Chapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and Objectification Patrice Ladwig Chapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique Patrick Eisenlohr Chapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics In Irfan Ahmad Afterword Tim Ingold Index
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