Ethnographic practice in the present / edited by Marit Melhuus, Jon P. Mitchell and Helena Wulff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melhuus, Marit.

Mitchell, Jon P.

Wulff, Helena.

Series:

EASA series ; v. 11.

EASA series ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Research.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In its assessment of the current ""state of play"" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of ""the field"" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential 'costs' of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by cur

Contents:

Ethnographic Practice in the Present; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory; Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage; Chapter 3. Bringing Ethnography Home?; Chapter 4. Ethnography at the Interface; Chapter 5. Notes from Within a Laboratory the Reinvention of Anthropological Method; Chapter 6. Making Ethics; Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods; Chapter 8. Getting the Ethnography 'Right'; Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations?; Chapter 10. Tracking Global Flows and Still Moving

Chapter 11. Ethnography in MotionEpilogue 1. Re-presenting Anthropology; Epilogue 2. Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857455437

0857455435

OCLC:

855502077