After Society: Anthropological Trajectories Out of Oxford, Pina-Cabral Jo, Bowman Glenn

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of ‘society’ challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as ‘social’. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

Introduction: After Society
Jo?o Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman

Part I: The Oxford Experience and Beyond