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Book Reviews by Cameron Brinitzer

Contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Science, Reason, Modernity (eds. Anthony Stavrianakis,... more Contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Science, Reason, Modernity (eds. Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley), edited by Todd Meyers.

Interviews by Cameron Brinitzer

Full Stop

As collaboration and interdisciplinarity once more enjoy wide celebration, it is easy to overlook... more As collaboration and interdisciplinarity once more enjoy wide celebration, it is easy to overlook the many challenges faced by those attempting to truly conduct themselves in collaborative and interdisciplinary ways. On a recent trip to New York City, James Faubion, Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, warmly admonished me: “One can call for interdisciplinarity all one wants, but if one is not actually engaging people in practices that allow them to embody the capacity to be interdisciplinary, then it’s not going to work.” In addition to his ethnographic inquiries in Greece and Texas, and his deep engagements with the work of Michel Foucault and the anthropology of ethics, Faubion has long sustained a commitment to experimenting with collaborative and interdisciplinary modes of inquiry, research design, and teaching. Reflecting on collaboration and interdisciplinarity, the history of anthropology and the ethical formation of oneself, Faubion underscored the importance of practicing as opposed to merely endorsing these recursive epistemic virtues.

Contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Science, Reason, Modernity (eds. Anthony Stavrianakis,... more Contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Science, Reason, Modernity (eds. Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley), edited by Todd Meyers.

Full Stop

As collaboration and interdisciplinarity once more enjoy wide celebration, it is easy to overlook... more As collaboration and interdisciplinarity once more enjoy wide celebration, it is easy to overlook the many challenges faced by those attempting to truly conduct themselves in collaborative and interdisciplinary ways. On a recent trip to New York City, James Faubion, Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, warmly admonished me: “One can call for interdisciplinarity all one wants, but if one is not actually engaging people in practices that allow them to embody the capacity to be interdisciplinary, then it’s not going to work.” In addition to his ethnographic inquiries in Greece and Texas, and his deep engagements with the work of Michel Foucault and the anthropology of ethics, Faubion has long sustained a commitment to experimenting with collaborative and interdisciplinary modes of inquiry, research design, and teaching. Reflecting on collaboration and interdisciplinarity, the history of anthropology and the ethical formation of oneself, Faubion underscored the importance of practicing as opposed to merely endorsing these recursive epistemic virtues.