Anthropology in the Meantime

Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of eight books, including Anthropological Futures; Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges; and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, all also published by Duke University Press.

Prologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority  1
Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime
1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance  39
2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads  49
3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads  79
Part II. Ground-Truthing
4. Violence and Deep Play  99
5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal  114
6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation  130
Part III. Tone and Tuning
7. Health Care in India  161
8. Hospitality  186
9. Anthropology and Philosophy  198
Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities
10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing  233
11. Recalling Writing Culture  258
12. Anthropological Modes of Concern  276
Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene  298
Acknowledgments  345
Notes  349
Bibliography  391
Index  429