Anthropology and the Everyday, from Comfort to Terror

Radical critiques of ethnography from within and outside the social sciences in the last decades 1 have not displaced from anthropology the role of intensive fieldwork, the study of some aspect of the world or human experience from within communities frequently, in some dimension, not "ours" and not "us." In terms of location, situation, and power, these typically have been communities affected but not privileged by (and often not at all enchanted by) whatever that thing is we call "modernity."