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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494598803321

Titolo

Knowing how to know [[electronic resource] ] : fieldwork and the ethnographic present / / edited by Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch and Judith Okely

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008

ISBN

1-84545-477-4

1-282-62704-X

9786612627040

0-85745-069-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

EASA series ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

HalsteadNarmala

HirschEric <1956->

OkelyJudith <1941->

Disciplina

305.800723

Soggetti

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Ethnology - Authorship

Ethnology - Philosophy

Ethnologists - Attitudes

Electronic books.

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

Title page-Knowing How to Know; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1-Knowing, Not knowing, knowing anew; Chapter 2-The Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge into Anthropological Knowledge; Chapter 3-Knowing without notes; Chapter 4-To know the dancer; Chapter 5-Knowledge as gifts of self and other; Chapter 6-Knowledge from the body; Chapter 7-What is sacred about that pile of stones at Mt. Tendong?; Chapter 8-Learning to see; Chapter 9-Rescuing theory from the nation; Notes on contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who



determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place?. Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the embodied knowledge of ballet