At the Pivot of East and West, Ethnographic; Literary; and Filmic Arts

Author

Fischer; Michael M. J.

Year

2023

Publisher

Duke University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-47801-718-9

Link

Last Update

01-Feb-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Art & Art History ; Asian Studies ; Language & Literature

Description

This volume complements and expands an earlier volume, Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life (Fischer 2023), on the arts as complements alongside or in conversation with ethnographies, and as partial keys to: forms of emergent consciousness, common sense, sensus communis, epistemes, habitus, and structures of feeling in the globally interconnected, politically, semiotically, and media-fraught, Anthropocenic twenty-first century. Anthropology is positioned often as a target because it can deploy potent ethnographic tools to analyze, clarify, and make legible the social dramas surrounding films, controversial novels, pandemics, global protests, popular culture inter-references, and historical accounts that have not been settled, and...