Anthropology in the Meantime

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of eight books, including Anthropological Futures; Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges; and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Prologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority  1Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance  392. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads  493. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads  79Part II. Ground-Truthing4. Violence and Deep Play  995. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal  1146. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation  130Part III. Tone and Tuning7. Health Care in India  1618. Hospitality  1869. Anthropology and Philosophy  198Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing  23311. Recalling Writing Culture  25812. Anthropological Modes of Concern  276Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene  298Acknowledgments  345Notes  349Bibliography  391Index  429

"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." - A. Ponce de Leon (Choice) " [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality." - Joseph Russo (Anthropological Quarterly) “This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.” - Michelangelo Paganopoulos (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)