ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the possibilities for the sort of partnership between anthropology and geography in the applied aftermath of the cultural turn as theoretical fervour. Areal and regional geography has always been the base for the coherence of ethnographic research in anthropology. The basis for a new sort of partnership between the applied cultural turns in geography and anthropology arises from the tendencies and limits that the preceding period of rather freewheeling interdisciplinarity left each of the disciplines. Situating ethnography in relatively stable geographical space is giving way to the necessity of tracking and even defining cultural formations across a number of related sites of fieldwork. In a sense, letting constructs of the social define the ethnographic centre of contemporary anthropological research constrains the interpretation of ethnographic materials by essentially non-ethnographic perspectives. The alternative, and a distinctly anthropological style, is to build the social out of local knowledge of it in the sites of fieldwork.
