Experiencing Anticipation: Anthropological Perspectives
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Experiencing Anticipation : Anthropological Perspectives. / Stephan, Christopher; Flaherty, Devin.
In: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2019, p. 1-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiencing Anticipation
T2 - Anthropological Perspectives
AU - Stephan, Christopher
AU - Flaherty, Devin
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Despite contemporary anthropology’s growing interest in ‘futures’, there has been an absence of sustained dialogue concerning the vital role of anticipation in everyday life. Seeking to bring much needed attention to the first-person perspective on futurity, in this introduction to the special issue we situate anticipation within the temporality of lived experience. Drawing on premises from anthropological studies of experience (particularly phenomenological approaches), we frame the experiential approach to anticipation by highlighting the parameters of its cross-cultural and inter-contextual variability. We argue that anticipatory experience provides a crucial locus for ethnographic inquiry into the disparate and polysemous manifestations of futures in everyday life. We then seek to demonstrate how anticipation thus conceived may be productively integrated with numerous ongoing themes within contemporary anthropological scholarship. Finally, we introduce the individual contributions to the issue.
AB - Despite contemporary anthropology’s growing interest in ‘futures’, there has been an absence of sustained dialogue concerning the vital role of anticipation in everyday life. Seeking to bring much needed attention to the first-person perspective on futurity, in this introduction to the special issue we situate anticipation within the temporality of lived experience. Drawing on premises from anthropological studies of experience (particularly phenomenological approaches), we frame the experiential approach to anticipation by highlighting the parameters of its cross-cultural and inter-contextual variability. We argue that anticipatory experience provides a crucial locus for ethnographic inquiry into the disparate and polysemous manifestations of futures in everyday life. We then seek to demonstrate how anticipation thus conceived may be productively integrated with numerous ongoing themes within contemporary anthropological scholarship. Finally, we introduce the individual contributions to the issue.
U2 - 10.3167/cja.2019.370102
DO - 10.3167/cja.2019.370102
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
JF - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
SN - 0305-7674
IS - 1
ER -
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