Knowing How to Know: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present (9) (EASA Series, 9) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845454383 ISBN 13: 9781845454388

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Narmala Halstead

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Críticas

"This book is an important stimulus to ongoing debate, and showcases some of the best of recent approaches and challenges to the ways we know what we know." * Ethos

Reseña del editor

This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place? Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the embodied knowledge of ballet performers, and from ignorance about post-colonial ritual innovations by the anthropologist in highland Papua to the skilled visions of slow food producers in Italy. It is a key text for new fieldworkers as much as for established researchers. The anthropological insights developed here are of interdisciplinary relevance: cultural studies scholars, sociologists and historians will be as interested as anthropologists in this re-evaluation of fieldwork and the project of ethnography.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845454383
• ISBN 13: 9781845454388
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
• Herausgeber: Halstead Narmala, Hirsch Eric, Okely Judith