14 On Critical Theory for the Twenty-First Century

Using Hage’s strategy of selecting what’s useful from a theory, choose some “tools” from this week’s readings and apply them to your own interests. What can be easily accounted for using these theoretical frames? What is not so easily accounted for?

These readings represent the editors’ interests and priorities for anthropology. What are yours? What would you edit out of our text and with what would you replace it?

Eventually, your generation will train the next generation of anthropologists. How do you anticipate your theoretical concerns and understandings developing over the course of the next 10 years? 20 years? How will you remain open to changing your stance, as Hage urges?