Clio/Anthropos

Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. Andrew Willford is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University, where he is also Chair of the Anthropology Department.

"The essays in this thoughtfully conceived collection provide a scholarly and sometimes playful account of the affinities and tensions between historians and anthropologists writing in Europe and America over the last forty years, along with a rich set of case studies by some of the best practitioners operating in this disciplinary border space. The resulting volume is an excellent teaching tool for each of these fields, as well as a sparkling reflection on the exciting results that critical historicism about key interdisciplinary negotiations can yield." —Arjun Appadurai, New York University "This volume illuminates the possibilities of global interaction and the politics of representation with elegance and depth. Indeed, some of these essays are small masterpieces. Discussions of the relationship between history and anthropology in terms of the problematic of the archive give the book additional force, given the 'archive fever' that grips us all now. It is an exceptionally coherent and interesting collection." —Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University