Ethnographic Imagination Basel
Basel Social Anthropology
Ethnographic Imagination Basel (EIB) – a series on reimagining the world from the mundane – is produced by the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. It is a research, educational, and public engagement initiative exploring innovative forms of political imagination through ethnographic practice. The podcast promotes ethnography not only as a tool of scholarly research but also as a mode of imagination available to all, a means for pursuing deeper intercultural, contextual understanding and more ethical ways of being in the world.
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Feb 13, 2023 • 32min
On Possibility–with Anand Pandian
In this episode, On Possibility, our guest Anand Pandian joins us virtually from Baltimore. Pandian's book, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (published in 2019) explores the possible in relation to knowledge, politics, and experience, but also—specifically—in relation to mundane acts of reading, writing, teaching, and researching.
Guest: Anand Pandian is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to A Possible Anthropology, the book around which our conversation will focus today, he is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India (2009); Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India (2014) and Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation (2015). Anand is also editor and co-editor of numerous volumes, and his research has spanned across a wide variety of topics from environmental ethics, ecological sensibility, and agrarian cultivation to film, art, and music, to ways of doing anthropology with an “open mind”—with an eye out for possibility.
Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Ethnographic Imagination Basel:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel)
in collaboration with the New Media Center
