ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the metaphor of remix as a way to enact these strategies. Remix, a term long used to describe the process of rap or hip-hop music, now more broadly describes the everyday practice of cut/copy/paste in the digital and networked age. Remix offers a dialogic and reflexive metaphor for thinking about future-oriented anthropology. The concept of ‘remix methods’ encompasses both the process of remixing and the product of remix. It offers an intriguing framework for resisting the typical labels associated with inquiry practices. Remixing in an Internet era is a playful and lively exchange of speculative, anticipatory, suggestive, critical, and interventionist arguments about cultural meaning. Sampling, defined as the continual and experimental selection and subsequent recombination of cultural meaning, is a prominent practice in social research; feminist, interpretive, and postmodern schools of thought have long understood the value of sampling in this sense.
