What is it with Polity and biographies lately? The British press has unleashed a slew of new biographies in the past few years. The have translated Joachim Radkau’s biography of Max Weber (all 700 pages of it) and now they are bringing Fournier’s biography of Durkheim to English. Along the way they’ve also published biographies of [...]I’m a big fan of books about doing fieldwork and my essays reflecting on field experiences are an important part of my methods class. So I was interested to read a new volume of essays from Indiana entitled Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology. Returns has a very straight-forward, baby-boomer agenda: all of [...]Clare’s recent post on Lords of Time prompted me to write up a blog entry that’s been frittering away on my hard drive for some time: Dr. Who is totally an anthropologist, isn’t he? He seems to know everything about everyone but is also totally clueless and seems not to know what he’s doing most of [...]
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