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Theory can be more than it used to be : learning anthropology's method in a time of transition

Title
Theory can be more than it used to be : learning anthropology's method in a time of transition / edited by Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus.
Publication
  • Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Boyer, Dominic
  • Faubion, James D.
  • Marcus, George E.
  • Boyer, Dominic
Description
vi, 285 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Learning anthropology's method in a time of transition
Subject
  • Anthropology > Methodology
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ethnography, fieldwork, theorization -- Portable analytics and lateral theory / Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe -- On programmatics / James D. Faubion -- The ambitions of theory work in the production of contemporary anthropological research / George E. Marcus -- Theorizing the present ethnographically / Andreas Glaeser -- Trans-formations of biology and of theory / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Figuring out theory: ethnographic sketches / Kim Fortun -- Pedagogy, training, analytical method -- Responses -- Theory as parallax and provocation / Andrea Ballestero -- Undisciplined engagements: anthropology, ethnography, theory / Lisa Breglia -- Theory-making: from the raw to the cooked / Jessica Marie Falcone -- People in glass cages (shouldn't throw theoretical stones) / Jamer Hunt -- Ethnography and social theory: a dialectic to hang our hats on / Townsend Middleton -- Theory as method / Deepa S. Reddy -- Dialogue -- Encountering and engaging theory (or not) -- Theory in the positive sense of the term -- Teaching theory and analytical method -- Afterword: on the need to reinvent anthropolgical teaching and training in theory / Dominic Boyer.
Call Number
JFE 16-1128
ISBN
  • 9781501700071
  • 1501700073
  • 9781501700088
  • 1501700081
LCCN
2015018642
OCLC
908935347
Title
Theory can be more than it used to be : learning anthropology's method in a time of transition / edited by Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus.
Publisher
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Boyer, Dominic, editor.
Faubion, James D., editor.
Marcus, George E., editor.
Container of (work): Boyer, Dominic. Portable analytics and lateral theory.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-1128
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