Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a
tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles:
conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be
More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and
George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the
assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory-a
matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of
professional ideology-operates in anthropology and related fields
today. They have assembled a distinguished group of scholars to
diagnose the state of the theory-ethnography divide in anthropology
today and to explore alternative modes of analytical and
pedagogical practice.Continuing the methodological insights
provided in Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be, the contributors
to this volume find that now is an optimal time to reflect on the
status of theory in relation to ethnographic research in
anthropology and kindred disciplines. Together they engage with
questions such as, What passes for theory in anthropology and the
human sciences today and why? What is theory's relation to
ethnography? How are students trained to identify and respect
anthropological theorization and how do they practice theoretical
work in their later career stages? What theoretical experiments,
languages, and institutions are available to the human sciences?
Throughout, the editors and authors consider theory in practical
terms, rather than as an amorphous set of ideas, an esoteric
discourse of power, a norm of intellectual life, or an infinitely
contestable canon of texts. A short editorial afterword explores
alternative ethics and institutions of pedagogy and training in
theory.Contributors: Andrea Ballestero, Rice University; Dominic
Boyer, Rice University; Lisa Breglia, George Mason University;
Jessica Marie Falcone, Kansas State University; James D. Faubion,
Rice University; Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago; Cymene Howe, Rice
University; Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School for Design and the
Institute of Design in Umea, Sweden; George E. Marcus, University
of California, Irvine; Townsend Middleton, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Deepa S. Reddy, University of
Houston-Clear Lake; Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago
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