Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be : Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition.

Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be -- Contents -- Introduction: New Methodologies for a Transformed Discipline -- Part I. Ethnography, Fieldwork, Theorization -- 1. Portable Analytics and Lateral Theory -- 2. On Programmatics -- 3. The Ambitions of Theory Work in the Production of Contemporary Anthropological Research -- 4. Theorizing the Present Ethnographically -- 5. Trans-formations of Biology and of Theory -- 6. Figuring Out Theory: Ethnographic Sketches -- Part II. Pedagogy, Training, Analytical Method -- 7. Responses -- Theory as Parallax and Provocation -- Undisciplined Engagements: Anthropology, Ethnography, Theory -- Theory Making: From the Raw to the Cooked -- People in Glass Cages (Shouldn't Throw Theoretical Stones) -- Ethnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats On -- Theory as Method -- 8. Dialogue -- Encountering and Engaging Theory (or Not) -- Theory in the Positive Sense of the Term -- Teaching Theory and Analytical Method -- Afterword: On the Need to Reinvent Anthropological Teaching and Training in Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

This volume argues that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory--a matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of professional ideology--operates in anthropology and related fields today.

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