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Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural turn' in neighbouring disciplines have unsettled anthropology to such an extent that the field's foundations, the subjects of its study as well as its methods and concepts, appear to be eroded. It is now time to take stock and either abandon anthropology as a fundamentally untenable or superfluous project, or to set it on more solid foundations. In this volume some of the world's leading anthropologists - including Vincent Crapanzano, Maurice Godelier, Ulf Hannerz and Adam Kuper - do just that. Reflecting on how to meet the manifold institutional, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges to the field, as well as on the continued, if not heightened, importance of anthropology in a world where diversity and cultural difference are becoming ever more important economically, politically, and legally, they set upon the task of reconstructing anthropology's foundations and firming up its stance vis-à-vis these challenges. 'With a backward glance at earlier predictions of the demise of anthropology, the essays present a confident account of the future of the discipline. Defining in clear terms what it is that anthropologists do, a well-chosen group of distinguished contributors confront the diversity and internal distinctions that characterize the field, weigh the seriousness of the trend toward interdisciplinary studies in the human sciences, and redefine the strengths of the anthropological mode of knowledge production'. (Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita, City University of New York)

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus' volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and representational practices rather than maintaining the original narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not only concerned with 'the ethnographic Other', but with representation in general

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms -- 1. Ajàlá's Heads: Refl ections on Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African Setting -- 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Anthropology, -- 3. Th e Difficulty of Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary -- 4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory -- 5. The Search for Wisdom: Why William James Still Matter -- 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu's Philosophers -- 7. How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Th ought -- 8. Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran -- 9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology -- 10. Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen -- 11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles -- 12. Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Recounting House hold Events -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Critiques -- On Being Out of Words -- Tactility and Distraction -- The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism -- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place -- Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic -- Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography -- The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference -- The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory -- A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities -- II. Reaction -- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology -- III. Witnessing -- Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru -- Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined -- IV. Poetics -- "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache -- V. What's Left, What's Emergent -- Nostalgia-A Polemic -- Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture -- VI. Circulations -- Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture -- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings -- VII. Media -- Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? -- VIII. Experiment -- Tango -- Index