Up Close and Personal

<ul> <li> Combines rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today</li> <li> Is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts.</li> <li> Focuses on how “peripheral perspectives” can help re-shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary culture and society.</li> <li> Accounts go to the heart of the anthropological endeavor decentering mainstream perspectives and revealing the intimate relationships and processes that create anthropological knowledge.</li></ul>