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Introduction: Think about it -- pt. 1. Men of knowledge in search of redemption or salvation. Humanism as nihilism : the bracketing of truth and seriousness in American cultural anthropology ; Chicken or glass : between Clifford Geertz and Paul Hyman ; Foucault's untimely struggle : toward a form of spirituality ; Michel Foucault : a philosopher's morality? : toward a bios technika -- pt. 2. In search of a contemporary anthropology. Collaboration, concepts, and assemblages ; Venues : the labinar and the anthropology of the contemporary research collaboratory ; An experiment in discordancy : reflections on familiarity, trust, and confidence in synthetic biology ; Why there is no contemporary bioscience, only a modern one ; The accompaniment : on the contemporary and the untimely -- Conclusion: The demands of the day : an untimely accompaniment