Anthropology and traces

Bibliographic Data

ID2401878
AuthorsNapolitano (0000-0002-6871-2093, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto)
Year2015
Volume15
Issue1
Pages47-67
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499614554239
OpenAlexW2009889379
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited40

This article explores the trace as a methodological tool and theoretical pathway in anthropology and beyond. Traces signal the limits of representation; they are the materials of knots of histories at the margins, as well as auratic presences. Through a critical reading of key ethnographic works, including an analysis of a Casa del Popolo in Rome which has been turned into a squat by Peruvian migrants, this article argues that the study of traces has an important genealogy in anthropology. This study invites us to explore the mattering of things (as forms becoming of importance), new ways of conjuring and operationalizing ethnographic 'details' and to broaden our debate of an anthropology beyond the subject, in the light of the mattering of histories

Epistemology · Ethnography · History of anthropology · Linguistics · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure