Stuck Moving

Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology

Peter Benson

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University of California Press
22 June 2023

Biography: general; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Gender studies, gender groups; Social research & statistics; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society.

Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology’s rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satirizing the discipline’s function as a culture resource for global health and the neoliberal university, this book unsettles anthropology’s hopeful claims about its own role in social change.

By: Peter Benson
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 9
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780520388734
ISBN 10: 0520388739
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 22 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1. Sixteen Candles 2. Lost in Translation 3. And Everything Is Going Fine 4. Murmur of the Heart 5. Do the Right Thing 6. Rushmore 7. Toy Story 8. Shame 9. Life Is Sweet 10. The Graduate 11. My Own Private Idaho 12. Boyhood 13. Broken Flowers 14. Stagecoach 15. The Red Balloon 16. Planet of the Apes Credits Bibliography Index

Peter Benson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Tobacco Capitalism and a coauthor of Broccoli and Desire.

Reviews for Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology

"""Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful."" * American Anthropologist * ""Benson takes us on a wild ride of reflections and analysis. . . to lay open an academic life, a neoliberal order, and a man stuck in the middle."" * Missiology: An International Review *"