Marilyn StrathernThinkers

Actor-network theory is reliant on narrational fields held together through social action in order to show how effects are produced out of alliances between human and nonhuman entities.

Anthropology is a discipline that continues to know itself as the study of social behavior or society in terms of systems of collective representations.

Anticipation is a routine crisis in the pursuit of knowledge, which is how to deal with the unforeseen.

Anticipation by default is the idea that the open-ended nature of ethnography permits one to recover the antecedents of future crises from material not collected for the purpose.

Culture is the way people draw analogies between different domains.

A Domain is like kinship constantly borrowing from other domains, decontextualizing and recontextualizing items which are subject to the 'domaining effects' of the particular domain in which they are located.

A Domain is the manner in which sets of practices and expertise offer relatively discrete or self-contained ways of contextualizing experience.

The Ethnographic movement is the moment when frames from one's own analytic analysis are juxtaposed with those that surprise us in the field.

Ethnography is a methodology well suited to strategies of coincidence insofar as it counts as an open-ended mode of study that permits one to recover the antecedents of future crises from material not collected for the purpose.

Ethnography is a participatory exercise which yields materials for which analytical protocols are often devised after the fact.

Late modernity is a period which arose out of an aesthetic that privileges information and levels of analysis.