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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433259803321

Autore

Fabian Johannes

Titolo

Ethnography as commentary : writing from the virtual archive / / Johannes Fabian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-06213-5

9786613062130

0-8223-8120-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Classificazione

73.03

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology - Computer network resources

Ethnology - Authorship

Communication in ethnology

Communication and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Closing House : a Late Ethnography -- 1. An Event: Closing the House -- 2. A Text: Made, Not Found -- 3. Kahenga's Work -- 4. Kahenga's World -- 5. Kahenga's Thought -- 6. Endings and Ends.

Sommario/riassunto

Leading anthropologist reconsiders his notes and interviews from his fieldwork in the Congo in order to comment on ethnographic practices.