A core feature of work in ARC over the last two years has been an ongoing discussion about method and the possibilities for collective work in contemporary anthropology. In the spring of 2005 George Marcus invited Stephen Collier, Andrew Lakoff and Paul Rabinow to talk about ARC at the Center for Ethnography at U.C. Irvine. At Irvine and over the following months Marcus, Collier, Rabinow, and Lakoff, along with Jim Faubion, Rebecca Lemov, and Christopher Kelty, had an exchange about concept work and collaboration in anthropology, which culminated in a panel at the 2006 AAA meetings in San Jose, California. Select parts of this discussion have been collected in ARC Exchange #1. Below you can find the original paper by ARC, responses to the paper after the Irvine discussions, and papers presented at the AAA meetings.

Documents

  • What is a Laboratory in the Human Sciences? Stephen Collier, Andrew Lakoff, and Paul Rabinow (pdf)
  • On Concept Work, an Exchange, June 2006-January 2007.
    • What is Concept Work? George Marcus, Stephen Collier, Andrew Lakoff (html/pdf)
    • Concept Work, a response. James Faubion (html)
    • The Tendential, qu’est-ce que c’est? Paul Rabinow (html)
    • The Personality of Anthropology. Rebecca Lemov (html)
    • Infastructure/infrastructure. Christopher Kelty (html)
  • Papers from the 2006 AAA panel on Concept work
    • James Faubion, Introduction (pdf)
    • George Marcus, Notes on the Contemporary Imperative to Collaborate… (pdf)
    • Stephen J. Collier, “The Collaboratory Form in Contemporary Anthropology” (pdf)
    • Rebecca Lemov, Toward a History of Collaboration in Anthropology (pdf)

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