Collaborative Anthropology Today

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, as well as a filmmaker, podcaster and author most recently of Energopolitics. Follow him on X @DominicBoyer. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books including Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary and Ethnography Through Thick and Thin.

Introduction, by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus

1. How Do We Collaborate? An Updated Manifesto, by Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus

2. Imagination, Improvisation, and Letting Go, by Keith M. Murphy

3. Ethnographic Reentanglements in the Collaborative Ecologies of Film and Contact Improvisation, by Christine Hegel-Cantarella and Luke Cantarella

4. Variations in the Ways That Collaborations Surround and Effect Ethnographic Research Projects: Addendum to Chapters 1–3, by George E. Marcus

5. Function and Form: The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective between Art and Anthropology, by Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa, Fiona P. McDonald, and Craig Campbell

6. Limn: Experimenting with Collaboration, by Stephen Collier, Christopher Kelty, Andrew Lakoff, and Martin Høyem

7. What's So Funny 'bout PECE, TAF, and Data Sharing?, by Michael Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brian Callahan, and Kim Fortun

8. A Collaborative Ethnography of Transnational Capitalism, by Sylvia Yanagisako and Lisa Rofel

9. Hypernormalization, Collaborative Analytics, and the Making of "American Stiob", by Alexei Yurchak and Dominic Boyer

10. An Account of the Cultures of Energy Podcast as Collaboration—Offered in Podcast Form, Of Course, by Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

11. Crafting Lissa, an Ethno-Graphic Story: A Collaboration in Four Parts, by Sherine Hamdy and A. Coleman Nye

Afterword: A Conversation on the History of Anthropological Collaboration with Rebecca Lemov