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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dominic Boyer , James D. Faubion , George E. MarcusPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501700071ISBN 10: 1501700073 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 21 December 2015 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Methodologies for a Transformed Discipline by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus Part I. Ethnography, Fieldwork, Theorization 1. Portable Analytics and Lateral Theory by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe 2. On Programmatics by James D. Faubion 3. The Ambitions of Theory Work in the Production of Contemporary Anthropological Research by George E. Marcus 4. Theorizing the Present Ethnographically by Andreas Glaeser 5. Trans-formations of Biology and of Theory by Kaushik Sunder Rajan 6. Figuring Out Theory: Ethnographic Sketches by Kim Fortun Part II. Pedagogy, Training, Analytical Method 7. Responses Theory as Parallax and Provocation by Andrea Ballestero Undisciplined Engagements: Anthropology, Ethnography, Theory by Lisa Breglia Theory Making: From the Raw to the Cooked by Jessica Marie Falcone People in Glass Cages (Shouldn't Throw Theoretical Stones) by Jamer Hunt Ethnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats On by Townsend Middleton Theory as Method by Deepa S. Reddy 8. 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 Anthropological Teaching and Training in Theory by Dominic Boyer Notes Bibliography Contributors IndexReviewsTheory Can Be More than It Used to Be illuminates and jeopardizes notions long central to anthropology. Fieldwork and ethnography have both come under much more thorough scrutiny than theory. This book explores the complexities, resonances, and possibilities of theory in relation to contemporary and near-future anthropology. It opens up complex and challenging terrain and provides us with the analytical wherewithal for thinking through-and with-questions of what theory can be and how it can shape and be shaped by the field. Lucid, fascinating, exceptionally engaging, and highly sophisticated, this book is a major contribution to key debates within and beyond anthropology. -Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, coeditor of Annual Review of Anthropology The essays in Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be are well crafted; they draw on vibrant ethnographic material and a creative rendering of social and cultural theory in relation to the abiding imperatives of anthropology. This book sets out a rich variety of approaches that will constitute points of departure for scholarly discussions, research, and pedagogy going forward. It is by no means an exaggeration to say the fate of the discipline of anthropology rests on the questions posed here. There are three no better and more respected anthropologists than Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus to speak authoritatively to these profound concerns and challenges. -Douglas R. Holmes, Binghamton University, author of Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism Author InformationDominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University. He is the author of The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era, from Cornell; Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture; and Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy. He is coeditor ofTheory Can Be More than It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition, also from Cornell. James Faubion is the Radoslav Tsanoff Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of An Anthropology of Ethics, The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today, and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is coauthor of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences and coeditor of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. He was the founding editor of Cultural Anthropology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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