Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (Methodology & History in Anthropology Book 41)

"In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold"-- Provided by publisher CONTENTS FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: ON THE EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Chapter 1 BEYOND CORRESPONDENCE: DOING ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM IN THE FIELD AND CLASSROOM Chapter 2 ANTHROPOLOGY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL MODE OF INQUIRY Chapter 3 GRAPHIC DESIGNS: ON CONSTELLATIONAL WRITING, OR A BENJAMINIAN RESPONSE TO INGOLD’S CRITIQUE OF ETHNOGRAPHY Chapter 4 NON-CORRESPONDENCE IN FIELDWORK: DEATH, DARK ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THE NEED FOR TEMPORAL ALIENATION Chapter 5 COMMITMENT, CORRESPONDENCE, AND FIELDWORK AS NONVOLITIONAL DWELLING: A WEBERIAN CRITIQUE Chapter 6 A NEW HOLISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY WITH POLITICS IN AFTERWORD INDEX