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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170990903321

Titolo

Constructing the field : ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary world / / edited by Vered Amit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-64067-6

1-134-64068-4

0-415-19829-1

1-280-06681-4

0-203-45078-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 199p

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Altri autori (Persone)

AmitVered <1955->

Disciplina

305.8/007/23

Soggetti

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction -- Constructing the field / Vered Amit -- chapter 2 At home and away -- Reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology / Virginia Caputo -- chapter 3 Home field advantage? -- Exploring the social construction of children's sports / Noel Dyck -- chapter 4 Here and there -- Doing transnational fieldwork / Caroline Knowles -- chapter 5 The narrative as fieldwork technique -- Processual ethnography for a world in motion / Nigel Rapport -- chapter 6 Informants who come home / Sarah Pink -- chapter 7 Phoning the field -- Meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork at home / Karin Norman -- chapter 8 Access to a closed world -- Methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career / Helena Wulff -- chapter 9 Locating yoga -- Ethnography and transnational practice / Sarah Strauss.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the ethnographer in the field, and for the clear separation of professional and personal areas of activity. The very existence of 'the



field' as an entity separate from everyday life is questioned.Fresh perspectives on contemporary fieldwork are provided by diverse case-studies from across North America and Europe. These contributions give a thorough appraisal of what fieldwork is and should be, and an extra dimension is added through fascinating accounts of the personal experiences of anthropologists in the field.