05 On Writing Cultures

What embodied forms of knowledge do you hold? What insights does that embodiment give you that you would not otherwise be able to access?

These pieces share with the essays in Section Two an emphasis on the particular, but diverge in their conceptualization of methodology. How do these pieces build on and depart from Boasian-style ethnography?

What are the political implications of this approach to anthropology? If “truth” is always partial and subjective, can we say anything definitive about the world that we live in? How can we act to change it?