Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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Ontological Politics in a Disposable World. The New Natural Resource. Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen. Postmodern Revisionings of the Political. Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism.

Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory. Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture. The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism.

Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism. Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory. The Political Thought of Karl Popper. Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics. The Practical Import of Political Inquiry. Justice and Public Administration.

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Studying the Agency of Being Governed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism. Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education. The Power of Feminist Theory. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Designs on the Contemporary. Going to War in Iraq. Anthropology as Cultural Critique. A Machine to Make a Future.

Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

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Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Marcus , Tobias Rees , James D. Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! At a time when brilliant performance prevails over collective craft, and systematic shared knowledge seems like a thing of the past, it highlights the necessity of accountability in building knowledge. Marcus have very creative minds, a great deal of courage, and appealing intellectual intensity.

Their lucid, conversational dialogues in Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary are significant and almost sure to be influential. There is a hunger in anthropology for forward-looking suggestions. Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The search for renewal is neither here nor there; an act of renewal is another matter altogether. The enthusiasm of these thinkers is wrought through dialogue at once collaborative and agonistic, setting a standard of reflection that creates its own present tense.


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Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an afterword to the volume. Most of the conversations are focused on contemporary challenges to how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out.

Rabinow and Marcus reflect on what remains distinctly anthropological about the study of contemporary events and processes, and they contemplate productive new directions for the field.

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Both Rabinow and Marcus participated in the milestone collection Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Published in , Writing Culture catalyzed a reassessment of how ethnographers encountered, studied, and wrote about their subjects. His books include Marking Time: Reflections on Modern Equipment. He is the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today and Modern Greek Lessons: