Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Ten innovative ethnographic projects demonstrate how new and more complicated locations of research from the boardrooms of multinational corporations to the chat rooms of the Internet are giving rise to shifts in the character of both fieldwork and fieldworker. They also affirm that social scientists participate in a regime of power and knowledge similar to those found in corporations, the military, finance, politics, and science and technology.