Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Multisituated

Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022206

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About this book

Kaushik Sunder Rajan proposes a reconceptualization of ethnography as a multisituated practice that speaks to the myriad communities of accountability and the demands of doing and teaching anthropology in the twenty-first century.

Author / Editor information

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is author of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine and Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life and editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, all also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“The remarkable transformations over the past thirty years in the nonetheless emblematic research process that still defines anthropologists have never been explored so comprehensively, so instructively, and so passionately by a gifted, imaginative teacher to those who become anthropologists today in a historically key department.”

-- George E. Marcus, coeditor of Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition

"This challenging and stimulating monograph is intended for faculty involved in training graduate students in ethnographic practice. . . . Highly recommended."

-- W. Kotter Choice

"Multisituated is a passionate and eloquent contribution to contemporary discussions about anthropology’s pasts, presents, and possible futures that deserves to be widely read and keenly debated."

-- Stuart McLean American Ethnologist

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. A Problem, a Paradox, a Politics . . . and a Praxis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Scale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Comparison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. Encounter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
4. Dialogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Conclusion. Toward a Diasporic Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 267

eBook

Published: September 27, 2021
ISBN: 9781478022206