CARG is a monthly reading group organized by the Highland Asia team and open to staff and Ph.D. students of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich. The focus lies on monographs of contemporary anthropology, loosely linked to the themes of the Highland Asia project but without any commitment to a particular region.
Related Events
Reading Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox: Roads – An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
CARG #01 – first session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Ruben Andersson: Illegality, Inc. Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
CARG #02 – second session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Madeleine Reeves: Border Work. Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
CARG #03 – third session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Magnus Marsden: Trading Worlds. Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers
CARG #04 – fourth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
CARG #05 – fifth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Erik Mueggler: The Paper Road. Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
CARG #06 – sixth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading James Ferguson: Give a Man a Fish. Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
CARG #07 – seventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules. On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
CARG #08 – eighth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Arjun Appadurai: Banking on Words. The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
CARG #09 – ninth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Michael Hathaway: Environmental Winds. Making the Global in Southwest China
CARG #10 – tenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Asher Ghertner: Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi
CARG #11 – eleventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
CARG #12 – twelfth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Gaston Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction
CARG #13 – thirteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair
CARG #14 – fourteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Yael Navaro-Yashin, The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity
CARG #15 – fifteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Lisa Björkman, Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
CARG #16 – sixteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Two Lenins. A Brief Anthropology of Time
CARG #17 – seventeenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil.
CARG #18 – eighteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz, The Mountain
CARG #19 – nineteenth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Mette M. High, Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush
CARG #12 – twentieth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics
CARG #21 – twenty-first session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Nayanika Mathur, Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India
CARG #23 – twenty-third session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Hoon Song, Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America
CARG #24 – twenty-fourth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Kathleen Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump
CARG #25 – twenty-fifth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Anya Bernstein, Religious Bodies Politics: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
CARG #26 – twenty-sixth session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Nitzan Shoshan, The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany
CARG #27 – twenty-seventh session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
Reading Jason De León, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
CARG #28 – twenty-eights session of the Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group
