Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. He is author of Islamism and Democracy in India (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Irfan Ahmad



Chapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom

Hatsuki Aishima



Chapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of Inquiry

Arpita Roy



Chapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold’s Critique of Ethnography

Jeremy F. Walton



Chapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and Objectification

Patrice Ladwig



Chapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique

Patrick Eisenlohr



Chapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics In

Irfan Ahmad



Afterword

Tim Ingold



Index