George MarcusThinkers

The Anthropology of art is concerned with whether separate domain of aesthetic objects (or practices) exist in different cultures.

Comparison is the putting questions to an emergent object of study whose contours, sites, and relationships are not known beforehand, but are themselves a contribution of making an account which has different, complexly connected, real-world sites of investigation.

An Elite is one with political power who controls the distribution of resources in their locale.

Ethnography's point (within the purview of its always local, close-up perspective) is to discover new paths of connection and association by which traditional ethnographic concerns with agency, symbols, and everyday practices can continue to be given on a differently configured spatial canvas.

Experimental ethnography is grounded in a critical, non-nostalgic understanding of the fate of techniques of radical critical aestheticism (such as montage, negative dialectics, and brechtian theater).

Experimental ethnography is contrasted to traditional ethnography in that traditional ethnography is about discovery and description of new groups it depends on preexisting, more conventional narrative treatments and is parasitic on them. Such ethnography is a comment on, a remaking of, a more standard, realist account.

The Experimental moment in anthropology is the engaging of new contexts of relevance for anthropology that do not fall back on the support of first generation, or 'classic' anthropology.

Feminist reflexivity is a performed politics and the means of overcoming the gendered character of supposedly value-free objectivist discourse.

The Global is an emergent dimension of arguing about the connection between sites in a multisited ethnography.

The Global is not already out there but rather is an emergent dimension of arguing about the connection among sites.

An Imaginary is the space anthropologist work inside of so as to create a map or design for fieldwork.