Prologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority  1
Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime
1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance  39
2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads  49
3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads  79
Part II. Ground-Truthing
4. Violence and Deep Play  99
5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal  114
6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation  130
Part III. Tone and Tuning
7. Health Care in India  161
8. Hospitality  186
9. Anthropology and Philosophy  198
Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities
10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing  233
11. Recalling Writing Culture  258
12. Anthropological Modes of Concern  276
Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene  298
Acknowledgments  345
Notes  349
Bibliography  391
Index  429

“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

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