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Subject(s)

• Ethnology—Research [Browse]
• Ethnology—Authorship [Browse]
• Ethnology—Fieldwork [Browse]

Related name

• Melhuus, Marit [Browse]
• Mitchell, Jon P. [Browse]
• Wulff, Helena [Browse]

Series

• EASA series ; v. 11. [More in this series]
• EASA series ; 11 [More in this series]

Summary note

In its assessment of the current ""state of play"" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of ""the field"" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by cur

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Ethnographic Practice in the Present; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory; Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage; Chapter 3. Bringing Ethnography Home?; Chapter 4. Ethnography at the Interface; Chapter 5. Notes from Within a Laboratory the Reinvention of Anthropological Method; Chapter 6. Making Ethics; Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods; Chapter 8. Getting the Ethnography 'Right'; Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations?; Chapter 10. Tracking Global Flows and Still Moving
• Chapter 11. Ethnography in MotionEpilogue 1. Re-presenting Anthropology; Epilogue 2. Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography; Index

ISBN

0-85745-543-5

OCLC

855502077

Doi

• 10.1515/9780857455437

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