Writing (Against) Nature: An Introduction

Abstract

  This collection of papers intends to address the questions: What can ethnographies of “nature” be like today? What forms should they take? After questioning the nature/culture binary in modern Western thought in general and in the twentieth-century anthropology in particular, anthropology today is characterized by wide-ranging interest in what has been conceptualized as “nature” until today. This collection aims to relate this re-thematization of “nature” to a methodological question in anthropology, that is, how to write an ethnography, thereby exploring the possibilities of ethnographic writing in today’s anthropology.