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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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