Locating the field : space, place and context in anthropology / / edited by Simon Coleman and Peter Collins

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 204 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 301.072/3
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Fieldwork
• Altri autori: ColemanSimon <1963-> CollinsPeter (Peter Jeffrey)
• Note generali: First published in 2006 by Berg Publishers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafes and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? : anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? Biography as field / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- Diaspora, cosmopolis, global refuge : three voices of the supranational city / Nigel Rapport.
• Sommario/riassunto: Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of 'locality' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must now be maintained and represented in relation to widening (and fragmenting) social frames and networks. Such developments have raised questions concerning the nature of ethnographic presence and scales of comparison. From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that provide new ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'. It shows that rather than taking key fieldwork processes such as globalization and mobility for granted, anthropologists are well-placed to examine and critique the totalizing assumptions behind these notions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Locating the field
• ISBN: 9781003085904 (e-book); 9781845204020 (hbk.); 9781845204037 (pbk.); 1-00-308590-3; 1-000-19009-9; 1-003-08590-3; 1-000-18346-7; 1-4742-1414-2; 1-282-54558-2; 9786612545580; 1-84788-223-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823325803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: A.S.A. monographs ; ; 42.