For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional obligation and a rite of passage. For Fiamma Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, the protagonist of Borges’ El Etnógrafo (1969), this rite of passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of visual art.…

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anthropology risk disappearing as a specific discipline within the general model of the curatorial? The Anthropologist as Curator collects together the research of international scholars working at the intersection of anthropology and contemporary art in…