A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times

Anand Pandian

Published by Duke University Press 2019

A Possible Anthropology

Methods for Uneasy Times

Anand Pandian

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004370

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Incorporating the current movements beyond 'writing culture' of twentieth-century anthropology, Anand Pandian reinstantiates the poetics of an ethnographic method that anticipates futures. In the midst of a surge of multimodal experimentation, Pandian stunningly reinvests in the narrative character of ethnography.”

-- George E. Marcus, coauthor of Ethnography by Design: Scenographic Experiments in Fieldwork

“Offering the daring gambit of revisiting anthropology's past to make it new, and critically meditating, too, upon the field's latest theoretical moves, Anand Pandian's captivating book is a stirring brief for ethnography as a method for exploring that which is and may yet be possible.”

-- Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

"This is a book that practicing anthropologists and students of anthropology must both read."

-- Shweta Krishnan Anthropology Book Forum

"A Possible Anthropology is bold, caring, and creative in trying to confront these issues head on, in trying to imagine some other kind of world."

-- Andrés Romero Cultural Anthropology

"With a focus on figures in the discipline’s past and current practices, A Possible Anthropology contributes to debates about the future of anthropological inquiry (and the ethnographic method) in academia and the wider world. It is an evocative and inspired book, clearly written and rigorous."

-- Adam Fleischmann Anthropological Quarterly

"This book is an inspirational joy and a read I recommend."

-- Robert Meckin Qualitative Research

“Pandian has offered a strong work. . . . A Possible Anthropology is indeed a hopeful book for uneasy times, that encourages us to dive deeper into an anthropological way of engaging with the world.”

-- Julia Nina Baumann Anthropos

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

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 168
Illustrations
- Other: 10 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 18, 2019
ISBN: 9781478004370