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Titolo: | Out of the study and into the field [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic theory and practice in French anthropology / / edited by Robert Parkin and Anne de Sales |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina: | 301 |
Soggetto topico: | Anthropology - France - Philosophy |
Anthropology - Fieldwork - France | |
Anthropology - France - Methodology | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | ParkinRobert <1950-> SalesAnne de |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | OUT OF THE STUDY AND INTO THE FIELD; Series page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of authors; Preface; Introduction: Ethnographic practice and theory in France; Chapter 1: Keeping your eyes open; Chapter 2: Canonical Ethnography; Chapter 3: Postcards atb the service of the imaginary; Chapter 4: Eric De Dampierre and the art of fieldwork; Chapter 5: What sort of anthopologist was Paul Rivet?; Chapter 6: Alfred Metraux; Chpater 7: Roger Bastide or the Darkness of Alterity; Chapter 8: The art and craft of ethnography; Chpater 9: Andre-Georges Haudricourt; Chpater 10: Louis Dumont |
Chapter 11: Will the real Maurice Leenhardt please stand up?Notes on contributors; Subject index; Name index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generall |
Titolo autorizzato: | Out of the study and into the field |
ISBN: | 1-84545-843-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910494587503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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