coproduction – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Internet Indigeneity & Anthropological Advocacy: text of a presentation at the University of South Florida (March 19, 2008)

INTERNET INDIGENEITY & ANTHROPOLOGICAL ADVOCACY Practicing Anti-Extinctionism, Diffusing Indigeneity, and Web Development as Action Research. For the past several years I have been working on two separate gaps in anthropological research and practice that would normally be viewed as separate and distinct. For some time now, speaking in ethnographic terms about either contemporary indigenous peoples […]

From Apter (1999): Fabian’s Dialogical, Performative Ethnographic Experiment

Quoted from Apter (1999: 584): In a bold experimental initiative, which followed Mudimbe (1988) and Wilmsen (1989) in winning the Herskovits Award, Fabian (1990) produced a critical ethnography of a theatrical performance in which the anthropologist played a “leading” role. Working with a popular acting troupe in Shaba, Zaire, Fabian documented the production, direction, rehearsal […]