Twenty-Five Years

I find stones especially helpful here partly because of their physical and historical diversity and partly because they generate such interesting metaphors.

One of the contributions of Writing Culture was to draw attention to writing as critical practice. How do you approach writing in your own work? Does your work with stones, for instance, require a new aesthetic? Well, it requires a new aesthetic for me, at least. I work by listening closely to the objects that I write about and there are qualities of insects that forced the structure and style of Insectopedia — their number, their variety, their unruliness, their phantasmagoric aspects.

I try to write as a reader and I think a lot about the experience I want the reader to have during their time with the text. It can create an environment in which things — including ourselves — can be understood differently and can live in different and sometimes unexpected ways.

Can you tell us a bit about where you are now and where we might find you next? Next year, I hope to begin interviews with earth scientists and neo-pagans, though probably not together!

• My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle.
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• Twenty-five years is a long time — Cultural Anthropology;

Web site of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Italian. Raffles mentions several levels of stone appreciation displayed by scholars, collectors and stone-lovers.

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What qualities do you think that ethnographers might need to study stone? Francois Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness, trans. Arthur Goldhammer New York: Essays on a Life, trans. Anne Boyman New York: The New Centennial Review Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones, trans.

University of Virginia Press, Abstract In the 25 years since Writing Culture was published, ethnography has radically expanded its objects and registers. About the Author Hugh Raffles, Interview with the Author Hemangini Gupta: Sharon Simpson, "Yuhua stones, Lanling market Shanghai. Links that Hugh Raffles Suggests: Web site of the China Viewstone Association in Chinese.

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