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Record Nr.

UNISA996201854003316

Titolo

Constructing the field : ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary world / / edited by Vered Amit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-64067-6

1-134-64068-4

0-415-19829-1

1-280-06681-4

0-203-45078-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 199p

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Altri autori (Persone)

AmitVered <1955->

Disciplina

305.8/007/23

Soggetti

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.