Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be : : Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition / / ed. by George E. Marcus, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion.
Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: New Methodologies for a Transformed Discipline
- Part I. Ethnography, Fieldwork, Theorization
- 1 Portable Analytics and Lateral Theory
- 2 On Programmatics
- 3 The Ambitions of Theory Work in the Production of Contemporary Anthropological Research
- 4 Theorizing the Present Ethnographically
- 5 Trans-formations of Biology and of Theory
- Part II Pedagogy, Training, Analytical Method
- 7 Responses
- 8 Dialogue
- Afterword. On the Need to Reinvent Anthropological Teaching and Training in Theory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index