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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797918703321

Titolo

Time and the field / / edited by Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

ISBN

1-78533-088-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

305.80072/3

Soggetti

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Ethnology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Time and the Field; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1Limits and Limitlessness; Chapter 2The Time of the State and theTemporality of the Gavman inManus Province, Papua; Chapter 3Out of Conclusion; Chapter 4Times of the Other; Chapter 5Surfacing Moves; Chapter 6Boredom, Rhythm, and theTemporality of Ritual; Chapter 7Episodic Fieldwork, Updating,and Sociability; Chapter 8Trans-temporal Hinges; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.