A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian

'This book is an inspirational joy and a read I recommend.' - Robert Meckin, Qualitative Research It is an evocative and inspired book, clearly written and rigorous.' - Adam Fleischmann, Anthropological Quarterly 'With a focus on figures in the discipline’s past and current practices, A Possible Anthropology contributes to debates about the future of anthropological inquiry (and the ethnographic method) in academia and the wider world. The book, thus, is a treatise on ethnographical practices and a methodological roadway to continue the intellectual tradition of anthropology both in 'uneasy' times and otherwise.' - Vinod Sartape, Anthropological Notebooks 'The book provokes the students of anthropology to imagine a possible method and approach as a guide to building a new methodical vision. ' A Possible Anthropology is bold, caring, and creative in trying to confront these issues head on, in trying to imagine some other kind of world.' - Andrés Romero, Cultural Anthropology 'This is a book that practicing anthropologists and students of anthropology must both read.' - Shweta Krishnan, Anthropology Book Forum “Offering the daring gambit of revisiting anthropology's past to make it new, and critically meditating, too, upon the field's latest theoretical moves, Anand Pandian's captivating book is a stirring brief for ethnography as a method for exploring that which is and may yet be possible.” - Stefan Helmreich, author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

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In the midst of a surge of multimodal experimentation, Pandian stunningly reinvests in the narrative character of ethnography.” - George E. “Incorporating the current movements beyond 'writing culture' of twentieth-century anthropology, Anand Pandian reinstantiates the poetics of an ethnographic method that anticipates futures. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.

A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian