Possible Anthropology : Methods for Uneasy Times

Pandian, Anand

ISBN 10: 1478003111 / ISBN 13: 9781478003113

Published by Duke University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Possible Anthropology : Methods for Uneasy Times
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478003111
• ISBN 13: 9781478003113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anthropology is an ethnography of anthropologists at work: canonical figures like Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnographic storytellers like Zora Neale Hurston and Ursula K. Le Guin, contemporary scholars like Jane Guyer and Michael Jackson, and artists and indigenous activists inspired by the field. In their company, Pandian explores the moral and political horizons of anthropological inquiry, the creative and transformative potential of an experimental practice.

About the Author

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation and the coedited volume Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing, both also published by Duke University Press.