Knowing how to know : fieldwork and the ethnographic present / edited by Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch and Judith Okely.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halstead, Narmala.

Hirsch, Eric, 1956-

Okely, Judith, 1941-

Series:

EASA series ; v. 9.

EASA series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnologists--Attitudes.

Ethnologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Title page-Knowing How to Know; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1-Knowing, Not knowing, knowing anew; Chapter 2-The Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge into Anthropological Knowledge; Chapter 3-Knowing without notes; Chapter 4-To know the dancer; Chapter 5-Knowledge as gifts of self and other; Chapter 6-Knowledge from the body; Chapter 7-What is sacred about that pile of stones at Mt. Tendong?; Chapter 8-Learning to see; Chapter 9-Rescuing theory from the nation; Notes on contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612627040

9781845454777

1845454774

9781282627048

128262704X

9780857450692

0857450697

OCLC:

645100464