Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Edited by: Irfan Ahmad

Volume 41 in the series Methodology & History in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209891

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

“It is a stimulatingly provocative and highly original study.” • David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

“This is an interesting and welcome contribution to a scholarly debate that has triggered considerable attention among anthropologists and others over the last few years. It brings together six chapters that engage with Ingold’s intervention about ethnography vs anthropology by critically asking how Ingold’s views can be put into practice.” • Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: ON THE EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Irfan Ahmad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 BEYOND CORRESPONDENCE: DOING ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM IN THE FIELD AND CLASSROOM Hatsuki Aishima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Chapter 2 ANTHROPOLOGY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL MODE OF INQUIRY Arpita Roy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3 GRAPHIC DESIGNS: ON CONSTELLATIONAL WRITING, OR A BENJAMINIAN RESPONSE TO INGOLD’S CRITIQUE OF ETHNOGRAPHY Jeremy F. Walton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4 NON-CORRESPONDENCE IN FIELDWORK: DEATH, DARK ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THE NEED FOR TEMPORAL ALIENATION Patrice Ladwig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5 COMMITMENT, CORRESPONDENCE, AND FIELDWORK AS NONVOLITIONAL DWELLING: A WEBERIAN CRITIQUE Patrick Eisenlohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6 A NEW HOLISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY WITH POLITICS IN Irfan Ahmad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
AFTERWORD Tim Ingold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
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