Just finished this wonderful little book by Anand Pandian from Duke U Press.
Nice quote: "Anthropology teaches us to seek out unseen faces of the world at hand, to confront its openness through experience and encounter, and to take these openings as seeds of humanity to come." (page 3)
What is the pragmatic value of anthropology in the 21st century? Pandian argues that we need new ways of seeing the world. He argues that "stories like ours can be tailored for times of darkness: for moments of profound and unsettling disquiet; in the face of intractable forms of injustice and neglect; as resources for assurance and imagination when the light begins to fade each evening, as it will." (page 120-121)
