Book Forum: A Possible Anthropology

Photo by Anand Pandian.

This book forum invites a group of anthropologists to reckon with Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke University Press, 2019) and to reflect on pressing concerns in the discipline.

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Introduction: A Possible Anthropology Forum

Introduction: A Possible Anthropology Forum

These are no doubt times of unease. The days before us feel both eternal and fleeting. They call for a re-examination of what it is that we are doing with anthr... More

On Hope

On Hope

The opening of A Possible Anthropology (Duke University Press, 2019) by Anand Pandian disarmed me by insisting on the possibility of building and nurturing “a g... More

Rehabilitating the Concept of the Human

Rehabilitating the Concept of the Human

One of the most compelling arguments in Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology (Duke University Press, 2019) is that we urgently need to rethink and rehabilita... More

Imagining (Disciplinarity) Otherwise

Imagining (Disciplinarity) Otherwise

A Possible Anthropology (Duke University Press, 2019) by Anand Pandian sparkles with brilliant insight and capacious vision. It’s Pandian’s love letter to a dis... More

Pedagogy at the Picket Line: Vulnerability and the Expanding Collective

Pedagogy at the Picket Line: Vulnerability and the Expanding Collective

In one memorable moment of A Possible Anthropology by Anand Pandian (Duke University Press, 2019), an undergraduate student asks the author an unexpected, disar... More

The Invisible Anthropologist

The Invisible Anthropologist

“I see you, John Jackson! I see you.” But how? You see, I am an invisible man. No, I am not a thief, at least not just that, even when pilfering the opening l... More

In the Meantime

In the Meantime

Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology (Duke University Press, 2019) situates the discipline as a transformative mode of inquiry. An encounter. A response to “... More

Anthropology in Times of Radical Unease

Anthropology in Times of Radical Unease

“The days before us feel both eternal and fleeting,” Andrés Romero (2020) observes in his introduction to these generous and compelling reflections on my recent... More