ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part provides an important contribution to the generation of more nuanced accounts of the distances covered and directions taken thus far on the cultural turn. It considers the cultural interweavings of geography and anthropology. The part argues that both 'obvious' strategies and 'non-obvious' strategies pose important reformulations of the idea and practice of 'fieldwork' and suggests new dialogues between and within geographical and anthropological enquiry. It shows how a narrow preoccupation with the 'cultural' can result in 'dematerialized' and 'desocialized' geographies. The part also shows some of the complexity obscured within that catch-all term 'the cultural turn' and explores how it has particular and localized versions and effects. It is concerned with making sober assessments of the cultural turn in the light of renewed interest in theoretically and empirically grounded enquiry.
