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How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future?
While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public"
or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred,
leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists.
The image of anthropologists "reaching out" from protected academic
positions to a vaguely defined "public" is out of touch with the
working conditions of these anthropologists, especially those
junior and untenured. The papers in this volume show that
anthropology is put to work in diverse ways today. They indicate
that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant
departures from canonical principles of cultural anthropology, such
as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of
collaboration. This volume's goal is to help graduate students and
early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling
something essential to anthropology has been lost. There really is
no other choice for most young anthropologists.
How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future?
While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public"
or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred,
leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists.
The image of anthropologists "reaching out" from protected academic
positions to a vaguely defined "public" is out of touch with the
working conditions of these anthropologists, especially those
junior and untenured. The papers in this volume show that
anthropology is put to work in diverse ways today. They indicate
that the new conditions of anthropological work require significant
departures from canonical principles of cultural anthropology, such
as replacing ethnographic rapport with multiple forms of
collaboration. This volume's goal is to help graduate students and
early-career scholars accept these changes without feeling
something essential to anthropology has been lost. There really is
no other choice for most young anthropologists.
"Anthropology and the Politics of Representation" examines the
inherently problematic nature of representation and description of
living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in
anthropological work as a whole. In "Anthropology and the Politics
of Representation" volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings
together a group of international scholars who, through their
fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political,
and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus
on such topics as ethnography, anthropologists' engagement in
identity politics, representational practices, the contexts of
anthropological research and work, and the effects of personal
choices regarding self-involvement in local causes that may extend
beyond purely ethnographic goals.
Such reflections raise a number of ethnographic questions: What
are ethnographic goals? Who sets the agenda for ethnographic
writing? How does fieldwork change the anthropologist's identity?
Do ethnography and ethnographers have an impact on local lives and
self-representation? How do anthropologists balance longheld
respect for cultural diversity with advocacy for local people? How
does an author choose what to say and write, and what not to
disclose? Should anthropologists support causes that may require
going against their informed knowledge of local lives?
Contributors
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz / Beth A. Conklin
/ Les W. Field / Katie Glaskin / Frederic W.
Gleach / Tracey Heatherington / June C.
Nash / Bernard C. Perley / Vilma Santiago-
Irizarry / Timothy J. Smith / Sergey
Sokolovskiy / David Stoll / Gabriela Vargas-
Cetina / Thomas M. Wilson
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