ABSTRACT

The Composition of Anthropology, is, in the main, focuses on the work of individuals turning experience and thinking into writing. A new 'science' emerges where new problems are pursued by new methods and truths are thereby discerned which open up significant standpoints. The traditions of social science that have attended to manners of studying 'local' practice in motion, and to inquiry in situations, are many and heterogeneous. The chapter discovers that merely the fact of the objects being chosen as one condensation of a problem for inquiry seemed to make them into potent objects for further thought. The workshop had as its goal to continue thinking through the manner in which these heterogeneous objects and problems could be interconnected. Our endeavor to assemble these objects and projects of anthropological inquiry within a shared, ­collaborative zone of work sets as its objective the challenge of showing the pertinence of bringing these heterogeneous objects into what should be called 'relations of exteriority'.