Losing Lévi‐Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology

Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01221.x

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“…Jessaca Leinaweaver (2010), Hamilton andPlacas (2011), andDole (2012) all explicitly look at work on indigeneity, demonstrating its continued life as foil to anthropological practice and the ways in which indigeneity shifts as traditionalist expectations clash with the transforming lives of those who would be summoned to this category. Addressing a separate theme, Richland (2009), Leinaweaver (2010, Hamilton andPlacas (2011), Muehlebach (2013), and Ashley Carse (2014) note a burgeoning interest in explicitly thinking about the relations that exceed the human. From inquiry in the environment or the anthropocene to multispecies ethnography, from focus on infrastructure to new scientific technologies and their effect on kinship, race, and beyond, previous reviews note the intensified framing of anthropologies beyond the human as new, vital objects of inquiry and sources of future possibility.…”

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“…Hamilton and Placas (2011) track methodological experiments with "natureculture" and, in their discussion of the anthropology of security, track the increasing imperative for anthropology to be "relevant." Leinaweaver (2010) notes innovations in ethnographic technique from collaborative writing projects to new mapping technologies. Muehlebach (2013) notes the increasing precarity of labor practices in our discipline and asks after the reach of the ethical imagination of our discipline.…”

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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In this essay, I trace the operations of a moral optimism and a skepticism that lie, uneasily, at the foundation of sociocultural anthropology. As other authors of year-in-review pieces have noted, anthropology is motivated by a moral optimism pointing toward the possibilities of an ethically and politically better life. Equally as fundamental, I argue, is a rigorous skepticism interrogating the shifting conditions that give life to anthropology's possibility. Here, I follow the productive tension between these two stances through the sociocultural anthropology of 2014, loosely grouping that work under the rubrics of "ends," "immediacy," "ecology," and "refusal." Throughout, I make a push for increased attention to our ethic of skepticism as means of tempering the discipline's moral optimism. [optimism, skepticism, immediacy, connection, year in review, sociocultural anthropology] RESUMENEn este ensayo, delineo las operaciones de un optimismo moral y un escepticismo que yacen, incómodamente, en la fundación de la antropología sociocultural. Como otros autores de los artyículos del año en revisión lo han notado, la antropología está motivada por un optimismo moral señalando hacia las posibilidades de una vidaética y políticamente mejor. Igualmente fundamental, argumento, es un escepticismo riguroso interrogando las condiciones cambiantes que dan vida a la posibilidad de la antropología. Aquí, sigo la tensión productiva entre estas dos posiciones a través de la antropología cultural del 2014, agrupando en líneas generales ese trabajo bajo las rúbricas de "fines", "inmediatez", "ecología", y "rechazo". A lo largo, presiono por una atención creciente a nuestraética de escepticismo, como un medio de temperar el optimismo moral de la disciplina. [optimismo, escepticismo, inmediatez, conexión, año en revisión, antropología sociocultural] ON SKEPTICISM AND OPTIMISMIn this essay, I review work in U.S. sociocultural anthropology from 2014. At the same time, I argue for attention to a skepticism that lies at the heart of our discipline, frequently overshadowed by the equally longstanding moral optimism that fuels our discipline's forward tilt. Michel de Montaigne begins his 16th-century essay "On the Cannibals" by questioning the chauvinistic tendency for anyone to call "barbarous anything he is not accustomed to" (1991:231). He argues, in counterpoint, for seeing the barbarism of the "we": "Those 'savages' are only wild in the sense that we call fruits wild when they are produced by Nature in her ordinary course: whereas it is fruit we

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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“…This article considers the Olympics as a “diagnostic event” (Leinaweaver, 2010: 220; see also Handelman, 1990) for global hierarchies of power, through which global conflicts and controversies coalesce in one of the world’s most internationally visible arenas of expression. Although the Olympics are commonly recognized as a legitimate stage for the articulation of national position (MacAloon, 1984; Price and Dayan, 2008; Roche, 2000), the extent of global approval for this articulation is contingent on the particular configuration of global political ideologies and balances of power at the moment.…”

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Of Menace and Mimicry

Hubbert

2013

Modern China

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This article examines the Olympic narratives of young, educated urbanites in China to consider the 2008 Beijing Olympics’ role as a “diagnostic event” through which global conflicts and controversies coalesce and national identities are constructed. It illustrates how students and young professionals analyzed the Beijing Olympics to invoke discourses of similarity in the form of Western economic development models and difference in the form of essentialized tropes of Chinese culture to counter global images of China as a threat to international well-being. Exploring theories of mimicry to understand these appeals to similarity as a form of national value, this article also reveals how students and young professionals in China recommended the forms of culture manifest in the Olympics as an expression of difference to question and reformulate hierarchies of global power.

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“…Jessaca Leinaweaver closed 2009's excellent review article, a posthumous discussion of and tribute to Claude Lévi‐Strauss, by expressing curiosity about “what journals, catalogs, and conferences will serve up in 2010 for our consumption—whether raw, cooked, or somewhere in between” (Leinaweaver 2010:223). In this review article, we reflect on particular dimensions of the literature that are either emergent or part of an ongoing dialogue in anthropology and beyond.…”

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Anthropology Becoming … ? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review

Hamilton

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2011

American Anthropologist

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In this article, we seek to outline some of the key impulses, both substantive and methodological, in cultural anthropology in 2010 as represented in the four main peer-reviewed journals: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and Current Anthropology. We identify four main themes of particular significance in terms of theoretical intervention and methodological innovation: Gilles Deleuze, indigeneity, natureculture (multispecies ethnography), and security. [Deleuze, indigeneity, multispecies ethnography, natureculture, security]Between things does not designate a localizable relation going from one thing to the other and back again, but a perpendicular direction, a transversal movement that sweeps one and the other away, a stream without beginning or end that undermines its banks and picks up speed in the middle.-Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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Losing Lévi‐Strauss: The 2009 Year in Cultural Anthropology

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Of Menace and Mimicry

Anthropology Becoming … ? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review

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