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Theory can be more than it used to be : learning anthropology's method in a time of transition /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boyer, Dominic (Editor ), Faubion, James D. (Editor ), Marcus, George E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnography, fieldwork, theorization
  • Portable analytics and lateral theory / Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe
  • On programmatics / James D. Faubion
  • The ambitions of theory work in the production of contemporary anthropological research / George E. Marcus
  • Theorizing the present ethnographically / Andreas Glaeser
  • Trans-formations of theory / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
  • Figuring out theory: ethnographic sketches / Kim Fortun
  • Pedagogy, training, analytical method
  • Responses
  • Theory as parallax and provocation / Andrea Ballestero
  • Undisciplined engagements: anthropology, ethnography, theory / Lisa Breglia
  • Theory-making: from the raw to the cooked / Jessica Marie Falcone
  • People in glass cages (shouldn't throw theoretical stones) / Jamer Hunt
  • Ethnography and social theory: a dialectic to hang our hats on / Townsend Middleton
  • Theory as method / Deepa S. Reddy
  • Dialogue
  • Encountering and engaging theory (or not)
  • Theory in the positive sense of the term
  • Teaching theory and analytical method.