http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/26/wednesday-round-up-39/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Sun, 20 May 2012 14:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/26/wednesday-round-up-39/#comment-3743 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:55:53 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1883#comment-3743 A fair point, Maximilian. I was thinking more in terms of ethnographic practice in general, not the specific cases you and Sider highlight. Perhaps I should have said healthy paranoia. I was struck how, in a world with increasing electronic means of surveillance, that even the disciplines themselves are now caught in Foucault’s panopticon, never sure when someone is watching. And that does raise questions which do not often get asked, and I liked your piece for that. But I also think that feeds into our reflexivity, which I think can have both positive and negative consequences. How does this affect rapport? If we become gun-shy about certain topics, can we still reveal or illustrate the play of power in action? How can we listen for silences if we are always looking over our backs?

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/11/26/wednesday-round-up-39/#comment-3742 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:38:17 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1883#comment-3742 Really Daniel, do you think it is simply “paranoia,” even when people such as Sider and myself point to actual, documented cases of appropriation of ethnography for harmful ends? It hardly seems fair to drop that word in there, especially if any of us are to be concerned about the current or future health of anthropology, as I think you are.

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