Comments on: An Anthropology of the “Here” and “Now”

By: Geri Sathiraboot

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By: LP

LP — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:28:02 +0000

I agree with DW. Someone once told me that Anthropology is a history of the presence. Mind you the here and now is fleeting, at the blink of an eye the here and now becomes the past. Thus, the past should not be neglected either.

By: dw

dw — Mon, 16 May 2011 01:56:21 +0000

Be careful. In a globalized world, it is already hard to tell the difference between “there” and “here” — what happened far way may have more power to shape our current daily life if you think about finance and the future market. Meanwhile, when anthropologists try to understand “now”, it is becoming critical to understand what happened “then”. Everyday, in the MBA programs around the world, future businessmen and women are trained with formulars of how to calculate the currency value based on the assumptions of a whole sets of index rates that may or may not happen in the future. Time and space are compressed in their brains and people’s hard working are becoming trivial or at least less important to consider.

By: Goldfish

Goldfish — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:44:01 +0000

Someone said: when people study the “others”, “the eccentric”and “far away”, they called it anthropology, when they study their own society and cutlure, they call it sociology. I think this criticism makes some sense.

However, anthropology is changing, and anthropologists in China are trying to use it to understand their own nation.

It is a promising task.

By: YodCh

YodCh — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:53:54 +0000

Insightful. I agree that the anthropological world has yet to adopt its own theories and apply them to itself. However, I question how much of it has anything to do with the nation/non-native debate, as that is more a methodological concern. One can be a foreigner to a land, and simply more culturally relativistic, and portray themselves being “here” and “now” in their writing.