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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779977403321

Autore

Melhuus Marit

Titolo

Ethnographic Practice In The Present [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-543-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

EASA Series ; ; v.11

Altri autori (Persone)

MitchellJon P

WulffHelena

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnology - Research

Ethnology - Authorship

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Social & Cultural Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Ethnographic Practice in the Present; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory; Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage; Chapter 3. Bringing Ethnography Home?; Chapter 4. Ethnography at the Interface; Chapter 5. Notes from Within a Laboratory the Reinvention of Anthropological Method; Chapter 6. Making Ethics; Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods; Chapter 8. Getting the Ethnography 'Right'; Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations?; Chapter 10. Tracking Global Flows and Still Moving

Chapter 11. Ethnography in MotionEpilogue 1. Re-presenting Anthropology; Epilogue 2. Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In its assessment of the current ""state of play"" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of ""the field"" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies,



human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by cur