Introduction

Embodied Progress works on the near side of the here and there that defines the anthropological project. By so doing it invites a traffic between the autocritique of anthropological writing and representation, and the continuing project of ethnographic documentation of cultural forms. In this book, the cultural forms are both English and Euro-American, and they are both ethnographically and historically described. This form of description proceeds as a sequence of frames or perspectives. Rather than making all of the connections explicit, the frames are set up to provide room for mutiple refractions.