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After Society : Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford / edited by João Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman

1st edition

New York, NY : [s.n.] [2020], 2020

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Introduction: After Society -- João Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman -- Part I: The Oxford Experience and Beyond -- Chapter 1. Plodding Towards Prosopography: Oxford Anthropology from 1976 on -- Jeremy MacClancy -- Chapter 2. Amor Fati and the Institute of Social Anthropology -- Glenn Bowman -- Chapter 3. The Lucky Anthropologist? Becoming an Anthropologist of Japan in Oxford -- Dolores P. Martinez -- Chapter 4. Lost and Found in Oxford -- Roger Just -- Chapter 5. Is Necessity the Mother of Invention? -- A. David Napier -- Part II: Ethnography as a Vocation -- Chapter 6. Changing Questions? Reflections on Anthropology in and out of Oxford since the 1980s -- David N. Gellner -- Chapter 7. The Fieldwork Tradition and the Quest for Essential Perplexities -- Signe Howell -- Chapter 8. Journeys of an Ethnographer: From Oxford to the Field and on to the Archives -- Sandra Ott -- Part III: Why Anthropology? Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 9. Why Anthropology? Structuralism and Since -- Timothy Jenkins -- Chapter 10. From Oxford to Cambridge: Chasing the ‘Aka’ -- Maryon McDonald -- Chapter 11. Mediterranean Equivoques at Oxford -- João Pina-Cabral -- Index --

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In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of ‘society’ challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as ‘social’. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time