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The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated
numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the
Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of
Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i
movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political
strategies that have
The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated
numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the
Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of
Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i
movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political
strategies that have
In At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines
documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and
Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics,
culture, and aesthetics. Women novelists—Lydia Kwa, Laksmi
Pamuntjak, Sandi Tan, Jing Jing Lee, and Danielle Lim—renarrate
Southeast Asian generational and political worlds as gendered
psychodramas, while filmmakers Tan Pin Pin and Daniel Hui use film
to probe into what can better be seen beyond textual worlds. Other
writers like Daren Goh, Kevin Martens Wong, and Nuraliah Norasid
reinvent the detective story for the age of artificial
intelligence, use monsters to reimagine the Southeast Asian
archipelago, and critique racism and the erasure of ethnic cultural
histories. Continuing his project of applying anthropological
thinking to the creative arts, Fischer exemplifies how art and
fiction trace the ways in which taken-for-granted common sense
changes over time, speak to the transnational present, and track
signals of the future before they surface in public awareness.
In At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines
documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and
Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics,
culture, and aesthetics. Women novelists—Lydia Kwa, Laksmi
Pamuntjak, Sandi Tan, Jing Jing Lee, and Danielle Lim—renarrate
Southeast Asian generational and political worlds as gendered
psychodramas, while filmmakers Tan Pin Pin and Daniel Hui use film
to probe into what can better be seen beyond textual worlds. Other
writers like Daren Goh, Kevin Martens Wong, and Nuraliah Norasid
reinvent the detective story for the age of artificial
intelligence, use monsters to reimagine the Southeast Asian
archipelago, and critique racism and the erasure of ethnic cultural
histories. Continuing his project of applying anthropological
thinking to the creative arts, Fischer exemplifies how art and
fiction trace the ways in which taken-for-granted common sense
changes over time, speak to the transnational present, and track
signals of the future before they surface in public awareness.
In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer
calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the
materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today.
Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists
within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, the
reverberations of past traumas, and emergent socialities. He
outlines the work of artist-theorists including Entang Wiharso,
Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar, who
speculate about the changing of the world in ways that are attuned
to cultivating, repairing, and rethinking the world in the
Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art
models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses
past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing
spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and
Vietnam, and from Kumar's experimental dance to Kuning's rattan and
beeswax ghost ships to Lim's videography of Singapore from the sea,
Fischer argues that these artists' theoretical discourses should be
privileged over those of the curators, historians, critics, and
other gatekeepers who protect and claim art worlds for themselves.
In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and
area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to
develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social
science. The book's chapters, drawing on research in East and
Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in
conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor
Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what
Tambiah has called "multiple orientations to the world." The
implicit focus throughout is on human cultural differences and the
historically constituted nature of the political potentialities
(both positive and negative) that stem from these. As a whole,
then, the volume promotes an approach to scholarship that actively
avoids privileging any one conceptual framework or cultural form at
the expense of recognizing another-a style of inquiry that the
editors call "radical egalitarianism." Together, these scholars
encourage a comparative examination of contemporary societies,
provide insights into the historical development of social
scientific and sociopolitical categories, and raise vital questions
about the possibilities for achieving equality and justice in the
presence of competing realities in the global world today. Michael
M.J. Fischer's Afterword provides a brilliant exegesis of Tambiah's
multifaceted oeuvre, outlining the primary themes that inform his
scholarship and, by extension, all the chapters in this book.
In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his
real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to
rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history
and inventory of experimental methods and frameworks in
anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Fischer presents
anthropology in the meantime as a methodological injunction to do
ethnography that examines how the pieces of the world interact, fit
together or clash, generate complex unforeseen consequences,
reinforce cultural references, and cause social ruptures.
Anthropology in the meantime requires patience, constant
experimentation, collaboration, the sounding-out of affects and
nonverbal communication, and the conducting of ethnographically
situated research over longitudinal time. Perhaps above all,
anthropology in the meantime is no longer anthropology of and about
peoples; it is written with and for the people who are its
subjects. Anthropology in the Meantime presents the possibility for
creating new narratives and alternative futures.
In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and
area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to
develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social
science. The book’s chapters, drawing on research in East and
Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in
conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor
Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what
Tambiah has called “multiple orientations to the world.” The
implicit focus throughout is on human cultural differences and the
historically constituted nature of the political potentialities
(both positive and negative) that stem from these. As a whole,
then, the volume promotes an approach to scholarship that actively
avoids privileging any one conceptual framework or cultural form at
the expense of recognizing another—a style of inquiry that the
editors call “radical egalitarianism.” Together, these scholars
encourage a comparative examination of contemporary societies,
provide insights into the historical development of social
scientific and sociopolitical categories, and raise vital questions
about the possibilities for achieving equality and justice in the
presence of competing realities in the global world today. Michael
M.J. Fischer’s Afterword provides a brilliant exegesis of
Tambiah’s multifaceted oeuvre, outlining the primary themes that
inform his scholarship and, by extension, all the chapters in this
book.
In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his
real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to
rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history
and inventory of experimental methods and frameworks in
anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Fischer presents
anthropology in the meantime as a methodological injunction to do
ethnography that examines how the pieces of the world interact, fit
together or clash, generate complex unforeseen consequences,
reinforce cultural references, and cause social ruptures.
Anthropology in the meantime requires patience, constant
experimentation, collaboration, the sounding-out of affects and
nonverbal communication, and the conducting of ethnographically
situated research over longitudinal time. Perhaps above all,
anthropology in the meantime is no longer anthropology of and about
peoples; it is written with and for the people who are its
subjects. Anthropology in the Meantime presents the possibility for
creating new narratives and alternative futures.
Anthropology as Cultural Critique helped redefine cultural
anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with Emergent Forms of Life and the
Anthropological Voice, pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer
moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in
the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing worlds of
technoscience, telemedia saturation, and the reconstruction of
societies after massive trauma. Fischer argues that new
methodologies and conceptual tools are necessitated by the fact
that cultures of every kind are becoming more complex and
differentiated at the same time that globalization and
modernization are bringing them into exponentially increased
interaction. Anthropology, Fischer explains, now operates in a
series of third spaces well beyond the nineteenth- and
twentieth-century dualisms of us/them, primitive/civilized,
East/West, or North/South. He contends that more useful
paradigms-such as informatics, multidimensional scaling,
autoimmunity, and visual literacy beyond the frame-derive from the
contemporary sciences and media technologies.A vigorous advocate of
the anthropological voice and method, Fischer emphasizes the
ethical dimension of cultural anthropology. Ethnography, he
suggests, is uniquely situated to gather and convey observations
fundamental to the creation of new social institutions for an
evolving civil society. In Emergent Forms of Life and the
Anthropological Voice Fischer considers a dazzling array of
subjects-among them Iranian and Polish cinema, cyberspace,
autobiographical and fictional narrative, and genomic
biotechnologies-and, in the process, demonstrates a cultural
anthropology for a highly networked world. He lays the groundwork
for a renewed and powerful twenty-first-century anthropology
characterized by a continued insistence on empirical fieldwork,
engagements with other disciplines, and dialogue with interlocutors
around the globe.
Originally published in 1966, this edition of Elizabeth E. Bacon's
classic work of history and ethnography includes an extensive
introduction by Michael M. J. Fischer that surveys developments in
our knowledge of Central Asia in the fifteen years since its
initial publication while speaking to the timeless qualities of
Bacon's original research and insights.
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