"Documents" reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social
science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly
share the professional passions and problems of the researcher.
Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to
bureaucracy to law; at the same time, fieldworkers document social
realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of
their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique
about the promises and pitfalls of ethnographic methods, the
contributors explore how ethnographers conceive, grasp, appreciate,
and see patterns, demonstrating that the core of the ethnographic
method now lies in the way ethnographers respond to, and
increasingly share the professional passions and problems of, their
subjects.
"Sophisticated and provocative. The original and unique focus of
this volume effectively opens up a new arena of critique that will
move ethnography and qualitative inquiry forward in a way that few
other works do."
--George Marcus, Department of Anthropology, Rice University
"This edited collection asks how an understanding of documentary
forms sheds light on the creation and circulation of modern forms
of knowledge, expertise, and governance. This is a major
intervention in how we understand the everyday practice and techne
of the documentary impulse and documentary apparatuses of law,
bureaucratic review, and other institutions of modernity, as well
as linguistic anthropology, literary theory, and law. The topic of
"Documents" is not just of interest because of epistemological
quandaries in the human sciences over textualization and
interpretation, but also because the domains to which we
increasinglyturn our attention are themselves
auto-documentary."--William M. Maurer, Chair and Associate
Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Contributors: Mario Biagioli, Donald Brenneis, Carol Heimer,
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Adam Reed, Annelise Riles, and Marilyn
Strathern.
Annelise Riles is Professor of Law and Anthropology at Cornell
University.
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