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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ballestero, Andrea,; Boyer, Dominic,; Breglia, Lisa,; Falcone, Jessica Marie,; Faubion, James D.,; Glaeser, Andreas,; Howe, Cymene,; Hunt, Jamer,; Marcus, George E.,; Middleton, Townsend,; Rajan, Kaushik Sunder,; Reddy, Deepa S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Boyer, Dominic,; Faubion, James D.,; Marcus, George E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 5 halftones, 1 chart

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...

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