"This book presents a blueprint for doing anthropology in troubled times. It instructs readers on how to convey important anthropological insights-indigenous wisdom-to a general audience in search of solutions to cotemporary social problems."--

Introduction: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times
Part I: The Senses in Artful Ethnography
1. Imaging Knowledge: Artful Vision in Slow Research
2. In the Shade of the Jujube Tree
3. Sensory Dimensions of Spirit Possession
4. Tasting Harmony in the World
Part II: The Wisdom of the Elders
5. Peripheral Knowledge and the Imponderables of the Between
6. Th e World According to Rouch
7. Wisdom from the Edge of the Village
Coda