We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal
queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent
waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty.
Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting
and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central
analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is
negotiated in myriad ways. Examining the politics and poetics of
waiting, Ethnographies of Waiting offers fresh perspectives on
waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping, and
asks "When is time worth the wait?" Waiting thus conceived is
intrinsic to the ethnographic method at the heart of the
anthropological enterprise. Featuring detailed ethnographies from
Japan, Georgia, England, Ghana, Norway, Russia and the United
States, a Foreword by Craig Jeffrey and an Afterword by Ghassan
Hage, this is a vital contribution to the field of anthropology of
time and essential reading for students and scholars in
anthropology, sociology and philosophy.
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