Blog | February 2018, Anthropology News
Renewing Political Anthropology
by Irfan Ahmad
In 2007, Jonathan Spencer announced the “death of political anthropology.” I do not think political anthropology died, but it does need renewing. To accept its death and hope, as Spencer does, for “a reborn anthropology of the political,” is to slip into metaphysics and expect its rebirth. This inaugural column outlines one key way to renew political anthropology: (auto)biography.