Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. He has previously been editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and is currently co-editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research. He works on Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, hospital chaplaincies, and cathedrals, and has carried out fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. Previous general works on anthropology have included Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology (2006, ed. with Peter Collins) and Multi-sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods (2011, ed. with Pauline von Hellerman). Susan B. Hyatt is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Chair of the Anthropology Department. She is also founder of the department’s MA program in Applied Anthropology. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts in 1996. With Boone Shear and Susan Wright, she co-edited a recent volume entitled, Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education (2015). She is committed to involving her students in collaborative fieldwork with neighbourhoods in Indianapolis, and in 2010, the Indiana Campus Compact awarded her with the Brian Hiltunen Award for the Outstanding Scholarship of Civic Engagement, and in 2012 she received the IUPUI Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement.Ann Kingsolver is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Her work as a cultural anthropologist, in ethnographic fieldwork in the United States, Mexico, and Sri Lanka, has been focused on variously situated interpretations of, and responses to, all that gets glossed as capitalist globalization. Her books include NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States (2001) and Tobacco Town Futures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky (2011), and edited collections More than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces (1998) and, with Nandini Gunewardena, The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (2007).

• PART IIntroduction1. Introduction to an engaging discipline: The challenge of creating a companion to contemporary anthropologySimon Coleman, Susan B. Hyatt, and Ann KingsolverPART IIConceptualizing the field in/of anthropology2. Engaging theory in the new millenniumFaye V. Harrison3. Participating, observing, witnessingDeborah Reed-Danahay4. Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalismPatrick Neveling5. Anthropology and the internetAnna Stewart6. Hand in hand: Homelessness, heritage and collaborative approaches to the material pastRachael Kiddey7. Communicating anthropology: Writing, screening, and exhibiting culturePaul Basu8. Teaching anthropological theory in neoliberal timesElizabeth ChinPART IIITransforming disciplinary conversations 9. Doing and being: Process, essence and hierarchy in making kinSusan McKinnon10. "Religion" after religion, "ritual" after ritualJon Bialecki11. Language, gender, and desire in performancePeter C. Haney12. Selves and codified bodiesSubhadra Channa13. Law and politics: An anthropological history, and research and practice among vulnerable populationsCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban14. Objectifying economies: contemporary themes in the anthropology of economic knowledge and practiceDaromir Rudnyckyj15. Research, representation, redemption and repatriation: Archaeology andcommunity relationships in 21st-century AmericaJoe Watkins16. Critical biocultural anthropology: A model for anthropological integrationThomas Leatherman and Morgan HokePART IVAnthropology in conversation with other fields17. Anthropology and ScienceJonathan Marks18. Joined at the head: Anthropology, geography and the environmentMichael J. Watts19. Entangled subjects and art objectsShelly Errington20. Psychological anthropology: An awkward hybrid?Andrew Beatty21. Whither anthropology in public policy?: Reflections from IndiaSoumendra Mohan Patnaik22. Health and anthropology in the era of anthropogenic climatic and environmental changeMerrill Singer23. Immersive politics and the ethnographic encounter: Anthropology and political scienceJoseph MacKay and Jamie Levin24. Social movements as processMarianne Maeckelbergh25. Ethnography as aprendizaje: Growing and using collaborative knowledge with the People's Produce Project in San DiegoA. L. Anderson-Lazo26. Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural citizenship and migrationMattia Fumanti