Recapturing Anthropology
Working in the Present
Edited by Richard G. Fox
The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today’s world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as “culture,” once had. Together the authors demonstrate that a reinvigorated anthropology must recognize how the profession labors under an existing intellectual discipline, with its own political and economic history, on a global “shop floor.”
1991. 264 pp., notes, references, index, 6 x 9
Contributors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Arjun Appadurai, Richard G. Fox, Jose F. Limon, Sherry B. Ortner, Paul Rabinow, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Joan Vincent, Graham Watson
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—R. B. Clay, Choice (September 1992)
“[Recapturing Anthropology] is a first class ticket to new times in anthropology.”
—Roger Slack, Sociology, vol. 27, no. 4 November 1993
- Introduction: Working in the Present
Richard G. Fox - Anthropology and the Salvage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness
Michael-Rolph Trouillet - Engaging Historicism
Joan Vincent - For Hire: Resolutely Late Modern
Paul Rabinow - Rewriting Culture
Graham Watson - For a Nearly New Culture History
Richard G. Fox - Representation, Ethnicity, and the Precursory Ethnography: Notes of a Native Anthropologist
José E. Limón - Writing Against Culture
Lila Abu-Lughod - Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture
Sherry B. Ortner - Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology
Arjun Appadurai