Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

Published by Duke University Press 2015

Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

Edited by: Orin Starn

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375654

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"...this volume will interest those curious about what anthropology—or at least a strong current within it—means in the 21st century. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

-- F. W. Gleach Choice

"Orin Starn [et. al.] have produced a rich and thought-provoking collection of essays addressing the current and future state of anthropology..."

-- Petra Rethmann American Anthropologist

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Orin Starn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. Feeling Historical James Clifford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 2. The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form: A Sketch George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER 3. Between History and Coincidence: Writing Culture in the Annual Review of Anthropology, ca. 1982 Richard Handler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
CHAPTER 4. Time, Camera, and the (Digital) Pen: Writing Culture Operating Systems 1.0–3.0 Michael M. J. Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
CHAPTER 5. Kinky Empiricism Danilyn Rutherford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
CHAPTER 6. Ethnography in Late Industrialism Kim Fortun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CHAPTER 7. Excelente Zona Social Michael Taussig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER 8. Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain’t John L. Jackson Jr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
CHAPTER 9. From Village to Precarious Anthropology Anne Allison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
CHAPTER 10. Kinship by Other Means Charles Piot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
CHAPTER 11. Dying Worlds Kamala Visweswaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
CHAPTER 12. Precarity’s Forms Kathleen Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
CHAPTER 13. Writing Culture (or Something Like That) Hugh Raffles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 5 illustrations

eBook

Published: May 9, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375654