Ethnography in today's world : color full before color blind / Roger Sanjek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanjek, Roger, 1944-

Series:

Haney Foundation series

Haney foundation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--United States--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Anthropology--United States--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Methodology.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 291 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part I Engaging Ethnography

1 Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City 3

2 The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in Queens 23

3 What Ethnographies Leave Out 42

Part II Ethnography, Past and Present

4 Ethnography 59

5 Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers 72

6 The Ethnographic Present 82

Part III Comparison and Contextualization

7 Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political Activism 103

8 Intermarriage and the Future of Races in America 115

9 Rethinking Migration, Ancient to Future 133

Part IV Ethnography and Society

10 Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural Things 155

11 Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World 174

12 Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of Ethnography 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812245455

0812245458

OCLC:

842880467