“One of our senior colleagues recently reflected, somewhat ruefully, that anthropology has lost control over its two most basic terms, culture and ethnography; that, in the age of deconstruction and critical postmodernism, we have entered a conceptual free-for-all in which our disciplinary quest has no terrain of its own anymore. Our tropes have been taken over, our signs seized.”
-John and Jean Comaroff, Preface, Ethnoraphy and the Historic Imagination.
I began reading John and Jean Comaroff’s Ethnography and the Historical Imagination this morning on the bus. I am really excited! More to come…
