Ethnography in Unstable Places

""Ethnography in Unstable Places" is a profound exercise in ethnographic reflexivity. It seeks to consider new possibilities, new challenges, new horizons--at once conceptual, political, ethical--for an old anthropological method by taking it precisely where it was not designed to go: into everyday worlds radically transformed by hitherto unimaginedsocial conditions, unimaginable political circumstances, altered states, economies, subjectivities. Expansive in their scope, provocative in their theoretical implications, even poetic in their treatment of human lives, the essays in this volume show 'where past has gone, where the future will come from';the past and future, that is, of both anthropology and the worlds with which it concerns itself."--John Comaroff, University of Chicago