Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

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).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not EquivalentIrfan AhmadChapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and ClassroomHatsuki AishimaChapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of InquiryArpita RoyChapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold’s Critique of EthnographyJeremy F. WaltonChapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and ObjectificationPatrice LadwigChapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian CritiquePatrick EisenlohrChapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics InIrfan AhmadAfterwordTim IngoldIndex

“It is a stimulatingly provocative and highly original study.” • David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford“This is an interesting and welcome contribution to a scholarly debate that has triggered considerable attention among anthropologists and others over the last few years. It brings together six chapters that engage with Ingold’s intervention about ethnography vs anthropology by critically asking how Ingold’s views can be put into practice.” • Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam