Being There :: the Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth.

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 eth...

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1. Verfasser: Borneman, John
Weitere Verfasser: Hammoudi, Abdellah
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (289 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index.
ISBN:9780520943438
0520943430
0520257766
0520257758
9780520257757
9780520257764
1282772554
9781282772557
9786612772559
6612772557

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