What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves--as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the matrices of our lives as ethical beings. Each contributor to this innovative book treats his or her own alterity as the touchstone of the exploration of an ethnographically and historically specific...
What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasi...
In this compact volume two of anthropology s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an afterword to the volume. Most of the conversations are focused on contemporary challenges to how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried...
In this compact volume two of anthropology s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Editors' Introduction to 30.1: Circles Not Pyramids," DOMINIC BOYER, JAMES FAUBION, AND CYMENE HOWE; "Editorial Curation and the Durability of Anthropological Ideas in a Time of Ambient Innovation: A Comment on the Thirtieth Year of Cultural Anthropology," GEORGE E. MARCUS; "Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China," LYLE FEARNLEY; "The Thing in a Jar: Mushrooms and Ontological Speculations in Post-Yugoslavia," LARISA JASAREVIC; "'The Taste No Chef Can Give': Processing Street Food in Mumbai," HARRIS SOLOMON;...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Editors' Introduction to 30.1: Circles Not Pyramids," DOMINIC BOYER, JAMES FAUBION, AND CYMENE HOWE; "Editorial Curation and the D...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "An Infrastructural Moment in the Human Sciences," KIM FORTUN and MIKE FORTUN; "Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime," NICHOLAS SHAPIRO; "'Where there is fire, there is politics': Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa," KERRY RYAN CHANCE; "Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines," JULIUS BAUTISTA; "The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media," CHARLENE MAKLEY; "The Work of Waiting: Love and Money in Korean...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "An Infrastructural Moment in the Human Sciences," KIM FORTUN and MIKE FORTUN; "Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde,...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology," ANNE ALLISON, DOMINIC BOYER, CHARLES PIOT; "Toward an Anthropology of Land Mines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the DMZ," ELEANA J. KIM; "What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China," JANELLE LAMOREAUX; "Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogota, Colombia," FEDERICO PEREZ; "Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique: Toward an Anthropology of Affective Encounters," JULIE...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology," ANNE ALLISON, DOMINIC BOYER, CHARLES PIOT; "Toward an Anthro...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Consent's Revenge," AUDRA SIMPSON; "Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass," ELISA J. SOBO; "Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention," ERICA WEISS; "Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel," LIMOR SAMIMIAN-DARASH; "Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya's Silicon Savannah," LISA POGGIALI; "You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid," MICAH...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Consent's Revenge," AUDRA SIMPSON; "Refusal and the Gift of Citizensh...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Consent's Revenge," AUDRA SIMPSON; "Refusal and the Gift of Citizenship," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal: Through the Looking Glass," ELISA J. SOBO; "Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention," ERICA WEISS; "Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel," LIMOR SAMIMIAN-DARASH; "Seeing (from) Digital Peripheries: Technology and Transparency in Kenya's Silicon Savannah," LISA POGGIALI; "You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid," MICAH...
TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction," CAROLE MCGRANAHAN; "Consent's Revenge," AUDRA SIMPSON; "Refusal and the Gift of Citizensh...
