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Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
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Overview
Continuing the methodological insights provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in anthropology and kindred disciplines. Together they engage with questions such as, What passes for theory in anthropology and the human sciences today and why? What is theory’s relation to ethnography? How are students trained to identify and respect anthropological theorization and how do they practice theoretical work in their later career stages? What theoretical experiments, languages, and institutions are available to the human sciences? Throughout, the editors and authors consider theory in practical terms, rather than as an amorphous set of ideas, an esoteric discourse of power, a norm of intellectual life, or an infinitely contestable canon of texts. A short editorial afterword explores alternative ethics and institutions of pedagogy and training in theory.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781501700088 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 12/21/2015 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 296 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: New Methodologies for a Transformed Disciplineby Dominic Boyer and George E. MarcusPart I. Ethnography, Fieldwork, Theorization1. Portable Analytics and Lateral Theoryby Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe2. On Programmaticsby James D. Faubion3. The Ambitions of Theory Work in the Production of Contemporary Anthropological Researchby George E. Marcus4. Theorizing the Present Ethnographicallyby Andreas Glaeser5. Trans-formations of Biology and of Theoryby Kaushik Sunder Rajan6. Figuring Out Theory: Ethnographic Sketchesby Kim FortunPart II. Pedagogy, Training, Analytical Method7. ResponsesTheory as Parallax and Provocationby Andrea BallesteroUndisciplined Engagements: Anthropology, Ethnography, Theoryby Lisa BregliaTheory Making: From the Raw to the Cookedby Jessica Marie FalconePeople in Glass Cages (Shouldn't Throw Theoretical Stones)by Jamer HuntEthnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats Onby Townsend MiddletonTheory as Methodby Deepa S. Reddy8. DialogueEncountering and Engaging Theory (or Not)Theory in the Positive Sense of the TermTeaching Theory and Analytical MethodAfterword: On the Need to Reinvent Anthropological Teaching and Training in Theoryby Dominic BoyerNotesBibliographyContributorsIndexWhat People are Saying About This
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be illuminates and jeopardizes notions long central to anthropology. Fieldwork and ethnography have both come under much more thorough scrutiny than theory. This book explores the complexities, resonances, and possibilities of theory in relation to contemporary and near-future anthropology. It opens up complex and challenging terrain and provides us with the analytical wherewithal for thinking through—and with—questions of what theory can be and how it can shape and be shaped by the field. Lucid, fascinating, exceptionally engaging, and highly sophisticated, this book is a major contribution to key debates within and beyond anthropology.
The essays in Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be are well crafted; they draw on vibrant ethnographic material and a creative rendering of social and cultural theory in relation to the abiding imperatives of anthropology. This book sets out a rich variety of approaches that will constitute points of departure for scholarly discussions, research, and pedagogy going forward. It is by no means an exaggeration to say the fate of the discipline of anthropology rests on the questions posed here. There are three no better and more respected anthropologists than Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus to speak authoritatively to these profound concerns and challenges.