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 I have just finished reading an interview with Stuart Hall. A founding father of Cultural Studies. This is a long, sincere and informative interview and free for all:

Stuart Hall's reflections on a life analyzing culture and society
An interview with Stuart Hall, December 2007
COLIN MacCABE

It seems that these are the times for evaluating what happened in the last decades. I have been reading many evaluative inteviews or articles. Here are from wtihin anthropology:

The End(s) of Ethnography: Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing Knowledge in Transition
George Marcus

EDITORS' OVERVIEW
Anthropology has been vital to recent interdisciplinary endeavors such as feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and science studies, but its own disciplinary core remains “in suspension,” awaiting an infusion of fresh theories and methods, argues George Marcus in an interview published in the February 2008 issue of Cultural Anthropology.

FOUR GENEALOGIES FOR A RECOMBINANT ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER

Cultural Anthropology. Nov 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 539-615.
 
CULTURE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS AS EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS
MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER

Arguing that without a differentiated and relational notion of the cultural, the social sciences would be crippled, reducing social action to notions of pure instrumentality, in this article, I trace the growth of cultural analysis from the beginnings of ...

Cultural Anthropology. Feb 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 1-65.

Posted by erkan on June 1, 2008 11:48 AM |

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I think that this evaluation or re-evaluation of Anthropology has been going on since the 80s when the critique of representation took place - most notably (I think) in the volume "Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography", edited by George Marcus and Mikael Fisher. In my opinion, Anthropology has never really "recovered" from this...but there may very well be new things afoot that I know nothing about.

You may also be interested in this PDF doc online, an interview with George Marcus in a volume called "After Culture"
http://emergentanthropologies.net/afterculture/index.php/afterculture/article/viewFile/3/30

Kathrine

Posted by: Kathrine | June 2, 2008 03:15 PM

Oh thanks Kathrine. I read that interview, too. I believe there are some emergences but still nothing very trendy or no field or idea gains a relative dominance at the moment. So there comes a new wave of reviews of last decades. there are no more radical criticism but these new ones contextualize 80s' critique into the general history of anthropology...

Posted by: Erkan | June 3, 2008 12:36 AM

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