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Stuck Moving - Peter Benson

Stuck Moving

Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology

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Buch | Hardcover
380 Seiten
2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38873-4 (ISBN)
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This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society. 
 
Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology’s rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satirizing the discipline’s function as a culture resource for global health and the neoliberal university, this book unsettles anthropology’s hopeful claims about its own role in social change.

Peter Benson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Tobacco Capitalism and a coauthor of Broccoli and Desire.  

Contents

List of Figures 
Acknowledgments 
Author’s Note 

1. Sixteen Candles 
2. Lost in Translation 
3. And Everything Is Going Fine 
4. Murmur of the Heart 
5. Do the Right Thing 
6. Rushmore 
7. Toy Story 
8. Shame 
9. Life Is Sweet 
10. The Graduate 
11. My Own Private Idaho 
12. Boyhood 
13. Broken Flowers 
14. Stagecoach 
15. The Red Balloon 
16. Planet of the Apes 

Credits 
Bibliography 
Index 
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 9
Zusatzinfo 37 b-w photographs
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 0-520-38873-9 / 0520388739
ISBN-13 978-0-520-38873-4 / 9780520388734
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