The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology
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Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, with an interdisciplinary range of essays, this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts, classroom interactions, engagements with various publics, and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens, the contributors cover important topics such as globalization, law and politics, collaborative archaeology, economics, religion, citizenship and community, health, and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline.
Table of Contents
PART I
Introduction
1. Introduction to an engaging discipline: The challenge of creating a companion to contemporary anthropology
Simon Coleman, Susan B. Hyatt, and Ann Kingsolver
PART II
Conceptualizing the field in/of anthropology
2. Engaging theory in the new millennium
Faye V. Harrison
3. Participating, observing, witnessing
Deborah Reed-Danahay
4. Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism
Patrick Neveling
5. Anthropology and the internet
Anna Stewart
6. Hand in hand: Homelessness, heritage and collaborative approaches to the material past
Rachael Kiddey
7. Communicating anthropology: Writing, screening, and exhibiting culture
Paul Basu
8. Teaching anthropological theory in neoliberal times
Elizabeth Chin
PART III
Transforming disciplinary conversations
9. Doing and being: Process, essence and hierarchy in making kin
Susan McKinnon
10. "Religion" after religion, "ritual" after ritual
Jon Bialecki
11. Language, gender, and desire in performance
Peter C. Haney
12. Selves and codified bodies
Subhadra Channa
13. Law and politics: An anthropological history, and research and practice among vulnerable populations
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
14. Objectifying economies: contemporary themes in the anthropology of economic knowledge and practice
Daromir Rudnyckyj
15. Research, representation, redemption and repatriation: Archaeology and
community relationships in 21st-century America
Joe Watkins
16. Critical biocultural anthropology: A model for anthropological integration
Thomas Leatherman and Morgan Hoke
PART IV
Anthropology in conversation with other fields
17. Anthropology and Science
Jonathan Marks
18. Joined at the head: Anthropology, geography and the environment
Michael J. Watts
19. Entangled subjects and art objects
Shelly Errington
20. Psychological anthropology: An awkward hybrid?
Andrew Beatty
21. Whither anthropology in public policy?: Reflections from India
Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
22. Health and anthropology in the era of anthropogenic climatic and environmental change
Merrill Singer
23. Immersive politics and the ethnographic encounter: Anthropology and political science
Joseph MacKay and Jamie Levin
24. Social movements as process
Marianne Maeckelbergh
25. Ethnography as aprendizaje: Growing and using collaborative knowledge with the People's Produce Project in San Diego
A. L. Anderson-Lazo
26. Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural citizenship and migration
Mattia Fumanti
Editor(s)
Biography
Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. He has previously been editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and is currently co-editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research. He works on Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, hospital chaplaincies, and cathedrals, and has carried out fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. Previous general works on anthropology have included Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology (2006, ed. with Peter Collins) and Multi-sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods (2011, ed. with Pauline von Hellerman).
Susan B. Hyatt is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Chair of the Anthropology Department. She is also founder of the department’s MA program in Applied Anthropology. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts in 1996. With Boone Shear and Susan Wright, she co-edited a recent volume entitled, Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education (2015). She is committed to involving her students in collaborative fieldwork with neighbourhoods in Indianapolis, and in 2010, the Indiana Campus Compact awarded her with the Brian Hiltunen Award for the Outstanding Scholarship of Civic Engagement, and in 2012 she received the IUPUI Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement.
Ann Kingsolver is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Her work as a cultural anthropologist, in ethnographic fieldwork in the United States, Mexico, and Sri Lanka, has been focused on variously situated interpretations of, and responses to, all that gets glossed as capitalist globalization. Her books include NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States (2001) and Tobacco Town Futures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky (2011), and edited collections More than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces (1998) and, with Nandini Gunewardena, The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (2007).