LEADER 01263cam a22003734a 4500001 99125573571306421 005 20211004152859.0 006 m o d 007 cr || |||||||| 008 050504s1999 nju o 00 0 eng d 020 1-4008-5180-7 024 7 10.1515/9781400851805 |2doi 035 (CKB)4100000011956036 035 (DE-B1597)583268 035 (DE-B1597)9781400851805 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC6554499 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL6554499 035 (OCoLC)1250081578 035 (OCoLC)1273307355 035 (MdBmJHUP)musev2_84055 035 (OCoLC)1257323882 035 (EXLCZ)994100000011956036 040 MdBmJHUP |cMdBmJHUP 041 0 eng 044 nju |cUS-NJ 050 4 GN345 |b.M373 1998 072 7 SOC002000 |2bisacsh 082 0 305.80072 |223 100 1 Marcus, George E. 245 10 Ethnography through Thick and Thin |cGeorge E. Marcus (Professor of Anthropology, Rice University, USA). 264 1 New Jersey : |bPrinceton University Press, |c1999. 264 4 |c©1999. 300 1 online resource (288 p.) : |b1 line illus. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 520 In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. He examines, in particular, how the discipline's central practice of ethnography has been changed by "multi-sited" approaches to anthropology and how new research patterns are transforming anthropologists' careers. Marcus rejects the view, often expressed, that these changes are undermining anthropology. The combination of traditional ethnography with scholarly experimentation, he argues, will only make the discipline more lively and diverse.The book is divided into three main parts. In the first, Marcus shows how ethnographers' tradition of defining fieldwork in terms of peoples and places is now being challenged by the need to study culture by exploring connections, parallels, and contrasts among a variety of often seemingly incommensurate sites. The second part illustrates this emergent multi-sited condition of research by reflecting it in some of Marcus's own past research on Tongan elites and dynastic American fortunes. In the final section, which includes the previously unpublished essay "Sticking with Ethnography through Thick and Thin," Marcus examines the evolving professional culture of anthropology and the predicaments of its new scholars. He shows how students have increasingly been drawn to the field as much by such powerful interdisciplinary movements as feminism, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies as by anthropology's own traditions. He also considers the impact of demographic changes within the discipline--in particular the fact that anthropologists are no longer almost exclusively Euro-Americans studying non-Euro-Americans. These changes raise new issues about the identities of anthropologists in relation to those they study, and indeed, about what is to define standards of ethnographic scholarship.Filled with keen and highly illuminating observations, Ethnography through Thick and Thin will stimulate fresh debate about the past, present, and future of a discipline undergoing profound transformations. 546 In English. 505 00 |tFrontmatter -- |tContents -- |tAcknowledgments -- |tIntroduction: Anthropology on the Move -- |tPART ONE: AN EVOLVING PROPOSAL FOR MULTI-SITED RESEARCH -- |tOne. Imagining the Whole: Ethnography's Contemporary Efforts to Situate Itself (1989) -- |tTwo. Requirements for Ethnographies of Late-Twentieth-Century Modernity Worldwide (1991) -- |tThree. Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography (1995) -- |tFour. The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scène of Anthropological Fieldwork (1997) -- |tPART TWO: TRACES IN PARALLEL ETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS -- |tFive Power on the Extreme Periphery: The Perspective of Tongan Elites in the Modern World System (1980) -- |tSix. The Problem of the Unseen World of Wealth for the Rich -- |tSeven. On Eccentricity (1995) -- |tPART THREE: THE CHANGING CONDITIONS OF PROFESSIONAL CULTURE IN THE PRODUCTION OF ETHNOGRAPHY -- |tEight. On Ideologies of Reflexivity in Contemporary Efforts to Remake the Human Sciences (1994) -- |tNine. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and in Engagement with Others (1997) -- |tTen. Sticking with Ethnography through Thick and Thin (1997) -- |tIndex 500 Includes index. 588 Description based on print version record. 655 4 Electronic books. 650 0 Ethnologists |xAttitudes. 650 0 Ethnology |xFieldwork. 650 0 Ethnology |xResearch. 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. |2bisacsh 653 Aborigines. 653 Afrocentrism. 653 Bateson, Gregory. 653 Bourdieu, Pierre. 653 Bright, Charles. 653 European Parliament. 653 Friedman, Jonathan. 653 Getty Trust. 653 Harvey, David. 653 Late Editions. 653 accountability. 653 affinity. 653 agency. 653 autobiography. 653 bifocality. 653 biography. 653 cannibalism. 653 capitalism. 653 categories. 653 changes. 653 chronotope. 653 classification. 653 collaboration. 653 colonialism. 653 comparison. 653 complexity. 653 connections. 653 constructivism. 653 detachment. 653 dialogism. 653 dialogue. 653 dissemination. 653 eccentricity. 653 ecology. 653 economics. 653 fetishism. 653 fieldwork. 653 globalization. 653 heterotopia. 653 historicization. 653 homeless mind. 653 identity. 653 individualism. 653 informants. 653 interdisciplinary arenas. 653 juxtaposition. 653 knowledge. 653 literary theory. 653 macro-micro. 653 metanarratives. 653 migration. 653 modernization. 776 |z0-691-00253-3 776 |z0-691-00252-5 906 BOOK