{"title":"ANTHROPOLOGY AS HISTORY: Thoughts on the 2025 Malinowski Memorial Lecture","authors":"Nancy Lindisfarne","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘When ethnography becomes history’, this year's Malinowski Memorial Lecture by Chihab El Khachab, was a <i>tour de force</i>. It had the uncanny effect of taking many of us on a journey through our own personal histories of anthropology as history and the legacy we as ethnographers leave behind. This article examines how the author is trying to manage an archive – her own ethnographic leavings – from fieldwork among wise and acutely politicized people in the Middle East: – in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and Syria.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"41 4","pages":"25-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Anthropology Today","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.70004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘When ethnography becomes history’, this year's Malinowski Memorial Lecture by Chihab El Khachab, was a tour de force. It had the uncanny effect of taking many of us on a journey through our own personal histories of anthropology as history and the legacy we as ethnographers leave behind. This article examines how the author is trying to manage an archive – her own ethnographic leavings – from fieldwork among wise and acutely politicized people in the Middle East: – in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and Syria.
“当民族志成为历史”,Chihab El Khachab今年的马林诺夫斯基纪念讲座堪称杰作。它有一种不可思议的效果,把我们中的许多人带进了一段旅程,通过我们自己作为历史的人类学历史和我们作为民族志学家留下的遗产。这篇文章考察了作者是如何试图管理一个档案——她自己的民族志遗存——来自中东地区——伊朗、阿富汗、土耳其和叙利亚的睿智而敏锐的政治人物的田野调查。
期刊介绍:
Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.