Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary PDF
by Rabinow Paul Rabinow, Marcus George E. Marcus, Faubion James D. Faubion, Rees Tobias Rees
Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book series
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Both Rabinow and Marcus participated in the milestone collection Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Published in 1986, Writing Culture catalyzed a reassessment of how ethnographers encountered, studied, and wrote about their subjects. In the opening conversations of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, Rabinow and Marcus take stock of anthropology's recent past by discussing the intellectual scene in which Writing Culture intervened, the book's contributions, and its conceptual limitations. Considering how the field has developed since the publication of that volume, they address topics including ethnography's self-reflexive turn, scholars' increased focus on questions of identity, the Public Culture project, science and technology studies, and the changing interests and goals of students. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary allows readers to eavesdrop on lively conversations between anthropologists who have helped to shape their field's recent past and are deeply invested in its future.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2008
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- ISBN:9780822390060
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:10/11/2008
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- ISBN:9780822390060