Rabinow / Marcus / Faubion Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9006-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Conversations between two top anthropologists about the intellectual trends in contemporary anthropology and about the discipline's future as it continues to intersect with fields such as science studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabinow, Paul

Marcus, George E.

Faubion, James D.

Rees, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Tobias Rees 1

Dialogue I: Anthropology in Motion 13

Dialogue II: After Writing Culture 33

Dialogue III: Anthropology Today 45

Dialogue IV: The Anthropology of the Contemporary 55

Dialogue V: In Search of (New) Norms and Forms 73

Dialogue VI: Of Timing and Texts 93

Dialogue VII: Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary 105

Afterword / Tobias Rees 115

Notes 123

Index 135

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles (with Talia Dan-Cohen), and Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment.George E. Marcus is the Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Ethnography through Thick and Thin; Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration (with Fernando Mascarenhas); and Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (with Michael M. J. Fischer).James Faubion is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism.Tobias Rees is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.