On the anthropology of the contemporary: Addressing concepts, designs, and practices

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dc.citation.firstpage371
dc.citation.issueNumber1
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Ethnographic Theory
dc.citation.lastpage402
dc.citation.volumeNumber6
dc.contributor.authorFaubion, James D.
dc.contributor.authorGuyer, Jane I.
dc.contributor.authorBoellstorff, Tom
dc.contributor.authorStrathern, Marilyn
dc.contributor.authorDeliss, Clémentine
dc.contributor.authorKeck, Frédéric
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Terry
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-30T20:52:22Z
dc.date.available2016-09-30T20:52:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractBetween 2007 and 2014, on his own and in association with Gaymon Bennett and Anthony Stavrianakis, Paul Rabinow has been devoted to the development of an “anthropology of the contemporary.” The project is widely recognized as being original, stimulating, and provocative, within and outside of the disciplinary corridors of anthropology. Only spotty attention has been paid, however, to the overarching integrity of the complex spiral of figuration and refiguration through which it has unfolded. Even less attention has been paid to the overarching integrity of the works that Rabinow inaugurated and has continued to pursue throughout his career—from an original and frequently cited formulation of the relation between tradition and modernity through his more recent articulations of the anthropology appropriate to the relation between modernity and the contemporary. Severally and jointly, the contributors to this forum give attention to both. Anthony Stavrianakis joins Rabinow in a response that engages these contributors, taking the opportunity thus provided to address criticism and to elaborate and to refine an anthropology of the contemporary as they currently understand it to be.
dc.identifier.citationFaubion, James D., Guyer, Jane I., Boellstorff, Tom, et al.. "On the anthropology of the contemporary: Addressing concepts, designs, and practices." <i>Journal of Ethnographic Theory,</i> 6, no. 1 (2016) University of Edinburgh: 371-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.020.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/91629
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Edinburgh
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordanthropology
dc.subject.keywordtheory
dc.subject.keywordthe contemporary
dc.subject.keywordcollaboration
dc.subject.keywordremediation
dc.subject.keywordconcept work
dc.subject.keywordcases
dc.titleOn the anthropology of the contemporary: Addressing concepts, designs, and practices
dc.typeJournal article
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