Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions

Published by Cornell University Press 2021

Collaborative Anthropology Today

A Collection of Exceptions

Edited by: Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501753374

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About this book

As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be and Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be. Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus assemble several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and put them in dialogue with one another as a way of exploring the recent surge of interest in creating new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships, especially in the domains of art, media, and information. Contributors highlight projects in which collaboration has generated new possibilities of expression and conceptualizations of anthropological research, as well as prototypes that may be of use to others contemplating their own experimental collaborative ventures.

Author / Editor information

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, as well as a filmmaker, podcaster and author most recently of Energopolitics. Follow him on X @DominicBoyer.

George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books including Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary and Ethnography Through Thick and Thin.

Reviews

Marina Peterson, University of Texas at Austin, author of Atmospheric Noise:

A timely collection of and about anthropological collaboration in its many forms. Collaborative Anthropology Today offers a tool kit not only for explicitly framed collaborations but also for rethinking the norms and practices of anthropology at the present.

Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University, author of Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography:

Collaborative Anthropology Today is an important work that provides unique, timely, and exceptional insights into larger projects of collaborative anthropology.

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INTRODUCTION Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 HOW DO WE COLLABORATE? An Updated Manifesto Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2 IMAGINATION, IMPROVISATION, AND LETTING GO Keith M. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 ETHNOGRAPHIC REENTANGLEMENTS IN THE COLLABORATIVE ECOLOGIES OF FILM AND CONTACT IMPROVISATION Christine Hegel and Luke Cantarella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4 VARIATIONS IN THE WAYS THAT COLLABORATIONS SURROUND AND EFFECT ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECTS Addendum to Chapters 1–3 George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 FUNCTION AND FORM The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective between Art and Anthropology Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, Fiona P. McDonald and Craig Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
6 LIMN Experimenting with Collaboration Stephen J. Collier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
7 WHAT’S SO FUNNY ’BOUT PECE, TAF, AND DATA SHARING? Lindsay Poirier Mike Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brian Callahan and Kim Fortun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
8 A COLLABORATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALISM Sylvia Yanagisako and Lisa Rofel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
9 HYPERNORMALIZATION, COLLABORATIVE ANALYTICS, AND THE MAKING OF “AMERICAN STIOB” Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
10 AN ACCOUNT OF THE CULTURES OF ENERGY PODCAST AS COLLABORATION—OFFERED IN PODCAST FORM, OF COURSE Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
11 CRAFTING LISSA, AN ETHNO-GRAPHIC STORY Sherine F. Hamdy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
AFTERWORD A Conversation on the History of Anthropological Collaboration with Rebecca Lemov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 43
- Line drawings: 4
- Images: 39
- Other: 39 b&w halftones, 4 b&w line drawings
Keywords: multimodal anthropology; experimental anthropology; anthropology of media; Collaborative analytics

eBook

Published: January 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781501753374