What is analysis? Between theory, ethnography, and method

Martin Holbraad; Sarah Green; Alberto Corsín Jiménez; Veena Das; Nurit Bird-David; Eduardo Kohn; Ghassan Hage; Laura Bear; Hannah Knox; Bruce Kapferer

doi:10.3167/sa.2018.620103

What is analysis? Between theory, ethnography, and method

Martin Holbraad, Sarah Green, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Veena Das, Nurit Bird-David, Eduardo Kohn, Ghassan Hage, Laura Bear, Hannah Knox, Bruce Kapferer

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Recent years in anthropology have seen a noticeable trend, moving from debates about theory to a concern with method. So while some generations ago we would tend to identify ourselves as anthropologists with reference to particular theoretical paradigms-for example, Marxism, (post-)structuralism, cognitivism, cultural materialism, interpretivism-these days our tendency is to align ourselves, often eclectically, with proposals conceived as methodological: entanglements, assemblages, ontologies, technologies of description, epistemic partnerships, problematizations, collaborative anthropology, the art of noticing, and so on.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-30
Number of pages	30
Journal	Social Analysis
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2018.620103
State	Published - Mar 2018

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Cultural Studies
Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
General Arts and Humanities

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