Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-343-6 (ISBN)

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In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold.

Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is author of Islamism and Democracy in India (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Irfan Ahmad

Chapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom

Hatsuki Aishima

Chapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of Inquiry

Arpita Roy

Chapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold’s Critique of Ethnography

Jeremy F. Walton

Chapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and Objectification

Patrice Ladwig

Chapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique

Patrick Eisenlohr

Chapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics In

Irfan Ahmad

Afterword

Tim Ingold

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-343-X / 180539343X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-343-6 / 9781805393436
Zustand	Neuware