Transforming ethnographic knowledge / edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Maxine Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardin, Rebecca.

Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Applied anthropology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]

Summary:

The ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures-fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue-are now being adapted for a broad array of applications, such as business and product design, conflict resolution and demobilization, wildlife conservation, education, and biomedicine. In Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge, anthropologists trace the changes they have seen in ethnography as a method and as an intellectual approach, and they offer examples of ethnography's role in social change and its capacity to transform its practitioners.

Scholars whose careers have engaged a first generation of anthropology include Mary Catherine Bateson, Sidney Mintz, and George E. Marcus, who illustrate with intimate detail how thinking ethnographically shapes both one's work in the world and one's life. Part 2 features senior scholars J. Lorand Matory and Marcia C. Inhorn, who chronicle the cultural politics of transnational and diasporic ethnography. Matory analyzes black Atlantic formations while Inhorn shows how mobility and diasporic connection apply to medical technologies in the Middle East. Part 3 showcases anthropologists working in sectors beyond the academy where ethnography is finding new relevance. Kamari Maxine Clarke looks at ethnographers' involvement (or non-involvement) in military conflict, Csilla Kalocsai employs ethnographic tools to understand the dynamics of corporate management training, and Rebecca Hardin and Melissa Remis collaborate with residents of African forests where wildlife conservation and research meet changing subsistence practices, shaping gender roles and social status. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Living and Teaching Ethnography

Participant Observation as a Way of Living / Mary Catherine Bateson Bateson, Mary Catherine 37

Loveless in the Boondocks: Anthropology at Bay / Sidney Mintz Mintz, Sidney 51

The Contemporary Desire for Ethnography and Its Implication for Anthropology / George E. Marcus Marcus, George E. 73

Part 2 Doing Transnational Ethnography

The Homeward Ship: Analytic Tropes as Maps of and for African-Diaspora Cultural History / J. Lorand Matory Matory, J. Lorand 93

Diasporic Dreaming: "Return Reproductive Tourism" to the Middle East / Marcia C. Inhorn Inhorn, Marcia C. 113

Part 3 Ethnographies in Emerging Sectors

Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice / Kamari Maxine Clarke Clarke, Kamari Maxine 137

Global Assemblages of Business Knowledge and Corporate Ethnography in Hungary's New Economy / Csilla Kalocsai Kalocsai, Csilla 160

Collaborative Conservation Science: An Anthropological Approach / Rebecca Hardin Hardin, Rebecca, Melissa Remis Remis, Melissa 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780299248741

0299248747

9780299248734

0299248739

OCLC:

761853099