Chapter 1. The Venture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. I. Into the Present
5. Chapter 1. The Venture 3
6. Chapter 2. Culture Everywhere and Nowhere 8
7. Chapter 3. Conversation as Another Kind of Solution 15
8. Chapter 4. This Book and Other Books 27
9. II. An Ethnography for Present Situations
10. Chapter 5. What? 39
11. Chapter 6. Where? 45
12. Chapter 7. Who? 50
13. Chapter 8. When? 55
14. Chapter 9. How? 61
15. Chapter 10. Why? 66
16. III. In the University
17. Chapter 11. Rupture and Continuity 79
18. Chapter 12. Theory 91
19. Chapter 13. Fieldwork 100
20. Chapter 14. Writing 108
21. Chapter 15. One Discipline among Others 117
22. IV. In the World
23. Chapter 16. The Intellectual’s Situation 127
24. Chapter 17. The Imaginary and the Political 129
25. Chapter 18. Ethnography and the Bureaucratic University 137
26. Chapter 19. From Science to Romance 142
27. Chapter 20. Reprise 151