ABSTRACT
The advocation of a more inventive and creative anthropology has become central in certain circles of the discipline since the 1980s. It has been a common descriptor for the practices developing at the intersections between art and anthropology over the last two decades, can be found in anthropological incursions into the digital realm and, more recently, has become integral to debates about multimodality. Research methods are undoubtedly valuable practical knowledge for anthropologists: they anticipate situations and offer guidance for the always complex task of fieldwork. Anthropologists have diverse ways of approaching and understanding ethnography, whether through the centrality of writing, the singular experience of participant observation, or the learning qualities of fieldwork. In a world on the verge of collapse, it is more necessary than ever to come to terms with the way the people practice empirical inquiries and produce novel accounts of ethnographic practices.
