Anthropology and ethnography are not equivalent: reorienting anthropology for the future

"In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at lar...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ahmad, Irfan 1974- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2021
Schriftenreihe:Methodology and history in anthropology volume 41
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Online-Zugang:DE-188
Zusammenfassung:"In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 160 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789209891