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UNINA9910170990903321 |
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Titolo |
Constructing the field : ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary world / / edited by Vered Amit |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-64067-6 |
1-134-64068-4 |
0-415-19829-1 |
1-280-06681-4 |
0-203-45078-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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European Association of Social Anthropologists |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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