Talk by Benjamin Hegarty, 2024-2025 Paris IAS Fellow, as part of the Ubud Writers Festival 2024, Indonesia.

Explore how contemporary anthropologists and cultural studies academics are rethinking ethnography in Indonesia, offering a fresh critique on knowledge production. This panel delves into the politics behind how knowledge is produced and shared, revisiting the works of elder thinkers like Clifford Geertz and Margaret Mead, who conducted seminal studies in Bali. How do their famous studies that defined modern anthropological theories hold up in 2024, and what new approaches are emerging?

More information: https://ubudwritersfestival.com/