Radical AnthropologyMar 25

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✨Tues Mar 31, 18:30 (UTC London)🌔
Anne Monk and Jacob Seagrave
Young Engels and the politics of the encounter

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Show threadRadical AnthropologyMar 25
Anne Monk and Jacob Seagrave explore how the young Friedrich Engels' 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' provides a neglected model of ‘communist ethnography’, a politically committed form of longterm investigation that has critical implications for the practice of anthropology today.
Show threadAlx 🐈6d ago
@RadicalAnthro I find “communist ethnography” an interesting term that I never encountered before. Leaving Comunism as a political theory aside, I find intriguing to insert the “common” in a practice that often creates a clear boundary between the ethnographer (the observer) and the research participants, for whom the benefits of the research are often quite obscured and not really very material. Not sure the talk necessarily goes in that direction, but hope I can attend online nonetheless
Show threadRadical Anthropology
@alx that's good! we're very interested in this. Did you ever read this work by Engels, it is astonishing social geography in 1840s Manchester?
Mar 30 at 7:54amWeb
Show threadAlx 🐈6d ago
@RadicalAnthro thank you! No, I haven’t read this work, and that’s really why I am so interested in this talk (and added the book in my reading list). I hope to be able to attend (online), and maybe (depending on the talk), I can ask about it. I think the idea of “common” and “communism” in ethnography is particularly intriguing: what are “the commons” in an ethnographic practice? What are & who owns the means of ethnographic production? (Still half-baked thoughts, I have no clear theory yet)