"Paul Stoller’s signature style of crafting dramatic, often humorous stories to convey ethnographic insights and explore wider theoretical themes has taken him across many genres of writing, including the fieldwork memoir and fiction. With The Power of the Between, Stoller brings us a powerful disciplinary memoir: vivid, eloquent, and laden with wisdom."

Kirin Narayan, author of My Family and Other Saints

“The Power of the Between offers something truly original: a personal intellectual history that combines rigorous scholarship, engaging discussions of theory, and intimate portraits of an ethnographer in the field, at home and abroad. By stitching together the narrative of his career in anthropology with discussions of his own intellectual development along the way, Stoller demonstrates how doing anthropology and living it are, or at least should be, one and the same.”

Russell Leigh Sharman, author of Nightshift NYC

“Paul Stoller is an adventurer, following a sensuous path whose sudden turns connect rationality with relativism, rivers with sand dunes, ancient deities with postcolonial politicians, West African villages with the streets of Harlem, rural traders with urban art collectors, and the methods of the sorcerer with those of the chemotherapist. This is the story of a true ethnographer.”

Dennis Tedlock, author of Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya

“Paul Stoller’s The Power of the Between is a rich and unusual volume. As a compilation of many years of original work, this book will almost certainly enter the corpus of anthropological memoirs that somehow achieve stunning conclusions while telling what for the world appear to be stories—moral allegories—about human suffering, happiness, and creative resilience.”

A. David Napier | American Ethnologist