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Constructing the field : ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary world /

Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the ethnographer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amit, Vered, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Colección:European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: constructing the field / Vered Amit
  • At 'home' and 'away': reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology / Virginia Caputo
  • Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children's sport / Noel Dyck
  • Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork / Caroline Knowles
  • The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion / Nigel Rapport
  • 'Informants' who come 'home' / Sarah Pink
  • Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork 'at home' / Karin Norman
  • Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career / Helena Wulff
  • Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational practice / Sarah Strauss.