Graham M. Jones
Secrecy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
although expansions state secrecy countervailing leaks classified documents imbue anthropology secrecy urgent relevance secrecy longstanding status paradigmatically anthropological topic ethnographic record initiatory secrets often stand quiddity culture revelation concealed realities organizing trope much ethnographic writing situating research secrecy reflection epistemological ethical dimensions cultural anthropology broadly review simultaneously explores parallels different anthropological traditions focusing descriptions media social relations involving secrecy transacted attending ethnographic accounts way secrets travel across different media coexist simultaneously various mediated states provides novel intellectual framework surveying recent research basis conceptualizing anthropology secrecy practice involves intermedial transmedial knowledge flows