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In his book The Method of Hope (2004), anthropologist Hirokazu Miyazaki argues that the kind of descriptive ethnography that has long been the mainstay of anthropology is inherently retrospective. Implicit in the retrospective glance is the notion of a completed world, a world of ethnographic objects. What for the people are moments of hope, of opening up to a future that is ‘not yet’, of growth along a path, are converted in the process of ethnographic writing into moments of closure and finality, wrapping up what has already come to pass and rendering it back to an audience or readership.