Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method - Hardcover

Okely, Judith

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ISBN 10: 1845206029 ISBN 13: 9781845206024

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Unique in its scope, Okely's text offers a rich breadth of experience and a very nuanced understanding of what actually occurs in practice. Students and even seasoned researchers will gain a much needed glimpse into the realities faced by fieldworkers. * Susan E. Frohlick, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Manitoba * In the tradition of Malinowski and Leach, Judith Okey offers a powerful explication of participant observation as it has been adapted to changing times and places. Building on the experiences of twenty anthropologists, and on her own engagement in fieldwork and academic settings, she stresses the unsystematic and serendipitous as keys to the choice of site, topic, and style of engagement. A delightful distillation of what is most salient and vital in practicing anthropology. * John Borneman, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University *

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Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique to anthropology, and provides the context by which to explain and develop practice-based and open-ended methodology. It draws on dialogues with over twenty established and younger anthropologists, whose fieldwork spans the late 1960s to the present day, taking place in locations as diverse as Europe, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, North and South America.

Revealing first-hand and hitherto unrecorded aspects of fieldwork, Anthropological Practice provides critical, systematic ways to enhance anthropological and alternative knowledge. It is an essential text for anthropology students and researchers, and for all disciplines concerned with ethnography.

Interviewees include: Paul Clough, Roy Gigengack, Louise de la Gorgendière, Suzette Heald, Michael Herzfeld, Signe Howell, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, Ignacy Marek Kaminski, Margaret Kenna, Raquel Alonso Lopez, Malcolm Mcleod, Brian Morris, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Akira Okazaki, Joanna Overing, Jonathan Parry, Carol Silverman, Mohammad Talib, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper, Sue Wright, Helena Wulff, Joseba Zulaika.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1845206029
• ISBN 13: 9781845206024
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214