Anthropology in the Meantime

“Michael M. J. Fischer's work has a deep ethical sense, as well as acute knowledge of the political, historical matrix of living and dying that anthropologists attend to. Recognizing and describing the traumas and violences that saturate the worlds ethnographers inhabit and write about, Anthropology in the Meantime is never far from the questions of whom ethnography and anthropology are for, and with whom they are practiced; and the answers are never simple.” - Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

“Anthropology in the Meantime is a stunning, luminous, and empowering engagement with our anthropological legacies and with anthropology to come. Ingenious through and through, this book represents critical humanism and cosmopolitan theorizing at its very best. It consolidates Michael M. J. Fischer's standing as anthropology's most inventive present-day essayist.” - João Biehl, coeditor of Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming

"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." - A. Ponce de Leon, Choice

" [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality." - Joseph Russo, Anthropological Quarterly

“This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.” - Michelangelo Paganopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute