Author
Fischer; Michael M. J.
Year
2023
Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
47
ISBN
978-1-47801-718-9
Last Update
03-Sep-2024
Keywords
Anthropology ; Art & Art History ; Asian Studies ; Language & Literature
This volume complements and expands an earlier volume, Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life (Fischer 2023), on the arts as complements alongside or in conversation with ethnographies, and as partial keys to: forms of emergent consciousness, common sense, sensus communis, epistemes, habitus, and structures of feeling in the globally interconnected, politically, semiotically, and media-fraught, Anthropocenic twenty-first century. Anthropology is positioned often as a target because it can deploy potent ethnographic tools to analyze, clarify, and make legible the social dramas surrounding films, controversial novels, pandemics, global protests, popular culture inter-references, and historical accounts that have not been settled, and...
