Comments on: And the anthropologists went two by two… http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rabinow http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/comment-page-1/#comment-58602 Rabinow Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:17:24 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/#comment-58602 Dear Strong, The initial funding was part of a NSF project on "Global Biopolitics of Security" with PIs Rabinow, Collier and Lakoff. Beyond this we are all contributing what we can in terms of labor and care (thank you Chris!). We hope to get a bit of help from our institutions and from whatever grants we manage to get. On collaboration: actually our view is that anthropology has always been characterized by a multitude of collaborative work and experiments. We are trying to catalyze more thought about this NOT to be exclusive in any way. More is more. PR Dear Strong,
The initial funding was part of a NSF project on “Global Biopolitics of Security” with PIs Rabinow, Collier and Lakoff.
Beyond this we are all contributing what we can in terms of labor and care (thank you Chris!).
We hope to get a bit of help from our institutions and from whatever grants we manage to get.

On collaboration: actually our view is that anthropology has always been characterized by a multitude of collaborative work and experiments. We are trying to catalyze more thought about this NOT to be exclusive in any way. More is more.

PR

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]]> By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/comment-page-1/#comment-49784 Strong Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:45:57 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/#comment-49784 Speaking of funding... who is funding ARC initiatives? I can't locate that on the site. Speaking of funding… who is funding ARC initiatives? I can’t locate that on the site.

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]]> By: ckelty http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/comment-page-1/#comment-49622 ckelty Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:36:07 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/#comment-49622 John... you should be able to sign up on any of the four blogs... let me know if you can't... I think all of the blogs are open as far as registering and leaving comments... strong, I think there strong affinities with the work of "applied" anthropology such as you mention, though they tend to be possible rather than actual. The one clear distinction for me is that this is conceived as a form of collaboration that is coordinated in the ways it encourages people to work on the same concepts, argue about them and attempt to find ways to make them stable, re-usable, verifiable etc--but not collaboration of the form that implies a division of labor, hierarchical or not, submitted to an already existing field of concepts. I actually have tried to articulate this view in more detail <a href="http://anthropos-lab.net/collaborations/concept-work/inrastructureinfrastructure/" rel="nofollow">on the site</a>... John… you should be able to sign up on any of the four blogs… let me know if you can’t… I think all of the blogs are open as far as registering and leaving comments…

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I think there strong affinities with the work of “applied” anthropology such as you mention, though they tend to be possible rather than actual. The one clear distinction for me is that this is conceived as a form of collaboration that is coordinated in the ways it encourages people to work on the same concepts, argue about them and attempt to find ways to make them stable, re-usable, verifiable etc–but not collaboration of the form that implies a division of labor, hierarchical or not, submitted to an already existing field of concepts. I actually have tried to articulate this view in more detail on the site…

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]]> By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/comment-page-1/#comment-49570 Strong Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:48:06 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/#comment-49570 The site looks really great and congratulations. You write: "It is the challenge of creating shared, valid, robust, testable and verifiable concepts that are relevant and productive across very diverse substantive domains, in an arena that for my recent memory has valued only the virtuoso work of individual geniuses, and not the sense of a collective academic contribution." I am wondering how ARC sees the collaborations it is supporting as different from the many many collaborations amongst anthropologists, social scientists, and others that have been pretty much the norm in applied settings. I am thinking specifically for example of the work of anthropologists, historians, epidemiologists, and such that is gathered under the roof of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. The site looks really great and congratulations.

You write: “It is the challenge of creating shared, valid, robust, testable and verifiable concepts that are relevant and productive across very diverse substantive domains, in an arena that for my recent memory has valued only the virtuoso work of individual geniuses, and not the sense of a collective academic contribution.”

I am wondering how ARC sees the collaborations it is supporting as different from the many many collaborations amongst anthropologists, social scientists, and others that have been pretty much the norm in applied settings. I am thinking specifically for example of the work of anthropologists, historians, epidemiologists, and such that is gathered under the roof of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

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]]> By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/comment-page-1/#comment-49567 John McCreery Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:15:47 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/01/30/and-the-anthropologists-went-two-by-two/#comment-49567 Sounds brilliant. When and if you are ready, sign me up. Sounds brilliant. When and if you are ready, sign me up.

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