Anthropology and the everyday, from comfort to terror

New Literary History

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 725-742

  Ries, Nancy ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain

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EID: 60950479767     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0044     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Edward Said's Orientalism (New York, 1978), in particular, had an enormous impact
2. For a sharp assessment from within anthropology of the practice of ethnographic emplacement, see the essays in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, ed. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (Durham, 1997)
3. and Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, ed. Gupta and Ferguson (Berkeley, 1997)
4. This learning process, and all of these discomforts of everyday unfamiliarity, are not, it must be emphasized, the product of "stepping outside of the 'West'" but are common to any fieldwork in unfamiliar contexts, even sometimes in contexts of the "defamiliarized familiar."
5. "The principles em-bodied in this way are placed beyond the grasp of consciousness, and hence cannot be touched by voluntary, deliberate transformation, cannot even be made explicit; no tiling seems more ineffable, more incommunicable, more inimitable, and, therefore, more precious, than the values given body, made body by the transubstantiation achieved by the hidden persuasion of an implicit pedagogy, capable of instilling a whole cosmology, an ethic, a metaphysic, a political philosophy, through injunctions as insignificant as 'stand up straight' or 'don't hold your knife in your left hand.'" Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, tr. Richard Nice (Cambridge, 1977), p. 94
6. After seventeen years of regular visits and much fieldwork, I have yet to fully em-body either proper eating or toilet behavior in Russia, as much as I may grasp the principles intellectually
7. Dorothy E. Smith, The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (Boston, 1987), p. 92
8. Michael E. Gardiner, Critiques of Everyday Life (London, 2000), p. 10; hereafter cited in text as CE
9. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World, tr. Sacha Rabinovitch (New York, 1971), p. 204; hereafter cited in text as ELM
10. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, tr. Steven Rendall (Berkeley, 1984)
11. For two singular studies, see Aihwa Ong, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (Albany, 1987)
12. on the former and Timothy Burke, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Durham, 1996) on the latter
13. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, tr. Maria Jolas (Boston, 1964), p. 67
14. Luce Giard, "The Nourishing Arts" in Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol, The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and, Cooking, tr. Timothy J. Tomasik (Minneapolis, 1998), p. 169
15. Karl Marx, "The Materialist Conception of History" from The German Ideology, in The Portable Karl Marx, ed. Eugene Kamenka (New York, 1983). p. 169
16. See Dorothy Smith's application of Marx to the ontology of things and subjects, The Everyday World as Problematic, pp. 122-40
17. George E. Marcus and Dick Cushman, "Ethnographies as Texts," Annual Review of Anthropology, 11 (1982), 29
18. See especially Sherry B. Ortner, "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26 (1984), 126-66
19. and George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (Chicago, 1986); hereafter cited in text as AC
20. John Fiske, "Cultural Studies and The Culture of Everyday Life," in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (New York, 1992), pp. 155-56
21. Bill Warner, "Commentary" in Cultural Studies, ed. Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler, p. 169
22. Michael Taussig, "Tactility and Distraction," in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, ed. George Marcus (Durham, 1992), p. 9; hereafter cited in text as TD
23. Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca, 1967); hereafter cited in text
24. Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, tr. George Weidenfeld (Chicago, 1966), p. 3
25. Barbara Myerhoff, Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians (Ithaca, 1974), p. 16; hereafter cited in text as PH
26. Annette Weiner, Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives on Trobriand Exchange (Austin, 1976), pp. 121-30; hereafter cited in text
27. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford, 1985), p. 251; hereafter cited in text as BP
28. Rita Felski, Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (New York, 2000), pp. 77, 79
29. Karl Marx, Economico-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in The Portable Karl Marx, ed. Eugene Kamenka (New York. 1983), p. 131
30. Brett Williams, "Reinventing the South," in Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. ed. Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella (Routledge, 1997), p. 179; hereafter cited in text
31. Stanley Cavell, "Comments on Veena Das' Essay 'Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain"' in Social Suffering, ed. Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock (Berkeley, 1997), p. 94
32. E. Valentine Daniel, "Mood, Moment, and Mind," in Violence and Subjectivity, ed. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Edwards (Berkeley, 2000), p. 362
33. James A. Pritchett, The Lundu-Ndembu: Style, Change, and. Social Transformation in South Central Africa (Madison, 2001)
34. See State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger (Boston, 1993)
35. Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, ed. Jeffrey A. Sluka (Philadelphia, 2000) presents in-depth case studies which outline a range of ethnographic approaches to state terror and dirty war
36. E. Valentine Daniel, Charred Lullabies, Chapters in the Anthropography of Violence (Princeton, 1996), p. 97; hereafter cited in text
37. Carolyn Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (Philadelphia, 1997). p. 46; hereafter-cited in text as DK
38. Marguerite Feitlowitz, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford, 1998), p. 57; hereafter cited in text
39. Veena Das, "Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain," in Social Suffering, ed. Arthur Klein man, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock (Berkeley, 1997), p. 69
40. Jeffery A. Sluka, "Introduction: State Terror and Anthropology," in Death Squad, p. 32