Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above."
*Choice*

" [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality."
*Anthropological Quarterly*

“This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.”
*Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*