ethnography

LITERATURE, WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY: A CURATED COLLECTION

Introductory Essay: Literature, Writing & Anthropology

Shannon Dugan Iverson, University of Texas

Darren Byler, University of Washington

HAN, 2011


SYMPTOMS OF ANOTHER LIFE: Time, Possibility, and Domestic Relations in Chile's Credit Economy

Clara Han

MAURER, 2005

Experts, Expertise, and Expert Knowledge

Myriad factors—including but hardly limited to Laura Nader’s landmark 1969 essay “Up the Anthropologist” and the emergence of science studies as a robust field of inquiry--contribute to contemporary anthropologists’ interest in experts, expertise and expert communities.  A growing interest in how regimes of legal, medical and other forms of professional knowledge and practice were deployed and contested in both colonial and post-colonial settings also turned anthropologists’ attention to experts and expertise.  Not only has Cultural Anthropology supported the turn to expertise and

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