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Mementos, artifacts, and hallucinations from the ethnographer's tent / edited by Ron Emoff and David Henderson.
Penn Museum Library GN346 .M46 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnologists--Biography.
- Ethnologists.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 202 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- Rethinking ethnography as open-ended rather than finished, some ethnographers are exploring unconventional narrative strategies for representing what they come to know. Their goals are to tell something else of what is out there, huge and unwieldy as "out there" is; to explore other threads in the social fabric of a place, a fabric that is rent with irreconcilable differences of opinion and points of view; and to explore the possibilities of engaging the distinctive unfolding of life in other places and times. The essays collected in Mementos, Artifacts, and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent exemplify this shift in their imaginative approaches to fieldwork. These tales take readers to a range of locales, from a police interrogation room in Lusaka, Zambia, to a wedding celebration in the Himalayan foothills, to the home of a wealthy Jewish family in 1950s Havana. Whether in the form of autobiographical accounts or as fictional narratives, these stories offer richly detailed portraits of informants, local cultures, and life in the field.
- Contents:
- Samosir's Dark Rains / Andrew Causey 17
- Sacred Secrets: Lessons with Francisco / Katherine J. Hagedorn 31
- Wildness in the Heart of Town / Ron Emoff 45
- The God of Doorways / Kirin Narayan 61
- A Touch of Danger / Karen Tranberg Hansen 81
- Leaving My Father's House / Amitava Kumar 101
- Miguel Aleman and His Dam / Ben Feinberg 117
- The Battered Wife's Tale / Laurel Kendall 131
- The Freak Street Riots of '59 / David Henderson 155
- The Last Time Tere Danced a Rumba / Ruth Behar 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0415935458
- 0415935466
- OCLC:
- 49493063
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