A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian

It is an evocative and inspired book, clearly written and rigorous. A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times Hardcover Illustrated, Octoby Anand Pandian (Author) 23 ratings Kindle 14.37 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 84.13 5 Used from 86.31 14 New from 84.12 Paperback 23.95 13 Used from 11.81 25 New from 19. Conceptualizing anthropology as a mode of practical and transformative inquiry, Anand Pandian stages an ethnographic encounter with the field in an effort to grasp its impact on the world and its potential for addressing and offering solutions to the profound crises of the present. Pandian was awarded the Infosys Prize 2019. Anand Pandian discusses his journey and what inspired him to study anthropology. In the midst of a surge of multimodal experimentation, Pandian stunningly reinvests in the narrative character of ethnography., 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. 3.3K views 3 years ago In this exclusive interview, Prof.

A Possible Anthropology is indeed a hopeful book for uneasy times, that encourages us to dive deeper into an anthropological way of engaging with the world., 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., Incorporating the current movements beyond 'writing culture' of twentieth-century anthropology, Anand Pandian reinstantiates the poetics of an ethnographic method that anticipates futures.

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., Pandian has offered a strong work. Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times.

A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian