"Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue th...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2009
Schlagworte:	Relevantie Veldwerk Ethnology > Fieldwork Feldforschung Ethnologie Aufsatzsammlung
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	"Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift attention back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic encounter. From an Inuit village to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork yields important insights outside the reach of textual analysis." -- Publisher's description.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	VIII, 280 S.
ISBN:	9780520257757 9780520257764