Abstract
Editorship, Value, and American Anthropology
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The overall framing for this collaborative article is American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, my experiences over five years of editorship, and the experiences of the associate editors responding to my thoughts here
We are here using American Anthropologist as an intimate test case with which to think through trends in anthropology and the academy
What new configurations do we see in regard to the disciplining and undisciplining of anthropology, within and beyond the academy? What are the consequences of these configurations for ethnographic and theoretical collaboration beyond “anthropology” proper, and for fieldwork methods more generally? How can we recuperate a destabilized and critical notion of the “American” in contemporary anthropology? What are the “American” legacies and trajectories of American anthropology and American Anthropologist? What might be new roles for the article genre in anthropological knowledge production?
Summary
The overall framing for this collaborative article is American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, my experiences over five years of editorship, and the experiences of the associate editors responding to my thoughts here. We are here using American Anthropologist as an intimate test case with which to think through trends in anthropology and the academy. In these opening thoughts, I set out two key issues for discussion that are often overlooked in debates about the futures of publishing. I set out two key issues for discussion that are often overlooked in debates about the futures of publishing The first of these involves the editor subject position. What new configurations do we see in regard to the disciplining and undisciplining of anthropology, within and beyond the academy? What are the consequences of these configurations for ethnographic and theoretical collaboration beyond “anthropology” proper, and for fieldwork methods more generally? How can we recuperate a destabilized and critical notion of the “American” in contemporary anthropology? What are the “American” legacies and trajectories of American anthropology and American Anthropologist? What might be new roles for the article genre in anthropological knowledge production?
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