Ethnography as Commentary : Writing from the Virtual Archive / Johannes Fabian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabian, Johannes, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina, USA : Duke University Press, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. In this insightful study, he returns to the recording of a conversation he had with a ritual healer in the Congolese town of Lubumbashi more than three decades ago. Fabian's transcript and translation of the exchange have been deposited on a website (Language and Popular Culture in Africa), and in Ethnography as Commentary he provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

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BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103915

ISBN:

9780822381204

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381204

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access