Academic Freedom and the Future of Anthropology in India

Ganguly, Tuhina

doi:10.1111/aman.12917

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“…This work on marginality in relation to migration is complemented by work on marginality in relation to nationalism. A collection of new essays published in American Anthropologist ’s World Anthropologies section considers anthropological responses to the widespread nativism, nationalism, and xenophobia of the current moment (Buchowski ; de Koning and Modest ; Dominguez and Metzner ; Ganguly ; Green ; Perelman ; Rial and Grossi ; Takezawa ). Turning instead to how ideas of religious nationalism are produced, Rose Wellman () demonstrates how rituals that emphasize purity of food also by extension advocate for purity of the nation.…”

Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…For a further question raised its head when scholarship itself – regardless of content – fell under suspicion. A remark made of India (Ganguly 2017: 527) could have been of anywhere: ‘right‐wing nationalism … is highly suspicious of intellectual pursuits in general’. Aside from academic censorship and the suppression of criticism, other unspoken terms of engagement swing into view when it is the very apparatus of argument (evidence, analysis) that is regarded with enmity.…”

Section: Engagement: Faking Itmentioning

confidence: 99%