Although that seems a touch meta, the book is satisfying to read. Pandian’s book is an ethnography of anthropology that folds its own techniques in on themselves and seeks to develop an empirically-based re-imagination of anthropology itself. 21(4) 628 –630 © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: /journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1468794120934394 /home/qrj Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology: Methods For Uneasy Times. 8), it is an ambitious book that works best as a provocation to anthropologists and raises important questions for qualitative researchers more generally. Although he says modestly ‘This is a small book of essays on problems of method in anthropology’ (p. By demonstrating this through consideration of anthropol- ogy, by finding new possibilities within the artefacts and practices of ethnography and anthropology, the book performs its central conceit: that anthropology is both the object of study and the method through which possibility can be created.
Early on, Pandian acknowledges anthropology’s checkered, abusive history is one that cannot be ignored but that anthropology also contributes ‘contrary ways of imagining and inhabiting the contemporary world’ (p.
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