Collaborative Anthropology Today

Dominic Boyer; George E. Marcus

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As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be and Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be. Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus assemble several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and put them in dialogue with one another as a way of exploring the recent surge of interest in creating new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships, especially in the domains of art, media, and information. Contributors highlight projects in which collaboration has generated new possibilities of expression and conceptualizations of anthropological research, as well as prototypes that may be of use to others contemplating their own experimental collaborative ventures.

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• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501753374
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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COLLABORATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY

COLLABORATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY A Collection of Exceptions

Edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Boyer, Dominic, editor. | Marcus, George E., editor. Title: Collaborative anthropology today : a collection of exceptions / edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020015520 (print) | LCCN 2020015521 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501753343 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501753350 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501753374 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501753367 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Anthropology—Methodology. | Group work in research. | Interdisciplinary research. Classification: LCC GN33 .C63 2020 (print) | LCC GN33 (ebook) | DDC 301.01—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020015520 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020015521

Contents

IntroductionDominic Boyer and George E. Marcus  1. How Do We Collaborate? An Updated Manifesto Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus  2. Imagination, Improvisation, and Letting GoKeith M. Murphy  3. Ethnographic Reentanglements in the Collaborative Ecologies of Film and Contact ImprovisationChristine Hegel, with contributions from Luke Cantarella  4. Variations in the Ways That Collaborations Surround and Effect Ethnographic Research Projects: Addendum to Chapters 1–3George E. Marcus  5. Function and Form: TheEthnographic Terminalia Collective between Art and AnthropologyTrudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, Fiona P. McDonald, and Craig Campbell  6. Limn: Experimenting with CollaborationStephen J. Collier, Martin Høyem, Christopher Kelty, and Andrew Lakoff  7. What’s So Funny ’bout PECE, TAF, and Data Sharing? Mike Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brian Callahan, and Kim Fortun  8. A Collaborative Ethnography of Transnational CapitalismSylvia Yanagisako and Lisa Rofel  9. Hypernormalization, Collaborative Analytics, and the Making of “American Stiob”Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer 10. An Account of theCultures of EnergyPodcast as Collaboration—Offered in Podcast Form, Of CourseDominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

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11. CraftingLissa, an EthnoGraphic Story: A Collaboration in Four PartsSherine F. Hamdy and Coleman Nye Afterword: A Conversation on the History of Anthropological Collaboration with Rebecca Lemov

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COLLABORATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY

INTRODUCTION Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions

Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus

This collection assembles several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and puts them in dialogue with one another as a way of capturing something of the diversity and energy surrounding collaborative experiments in anthropology at this moment. Although all the projects featured here seem similarly motivated to push beyond the norms of solo research and writing that have predominated in anthropology since the 1960s, each one develops its own distinctive approach to doing so. While collaboration has been an important dimension of anthropological inquiry since its earliest days, there has been a recent surge of interest in creat ing new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships that have expanded the boundaries of anthropological practice in stimulating ways. The range of partnerships and forms of collaborative engagement has been quite broad: some explore new modes of ethnographic representation, some build new kinds of research and information infrastructures, some seek new kinds of public out reach and community engagement, some pursue new conceptual interventions through collaborative analytic work. Although all these kinds of partnerships are represented to a greater or lesser extent in this volume, we particularly highlight projects in which collaboration has generated new possibilities of expression and conceptualization of anthropo logical research and also, in many cases, prototypes that may be of use to others contemplating their own collaborative ventures. This volume emerged from a workshop hosted by the Center for Ethnography at the University of California, Irvine, in May 2017 and follows two companion

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