Anthropological locations boundaries and grounds of a field science /

Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--The long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are studying topics that resist geographical localization, this book initiates a long-overdue discussi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gupta, Akhil, 1959-, Ferguson, James, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Anthropology > Methodology.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Anthropologie > Méthodologie.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology.
Anthropologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Ethnologie
Culturele antropologie.
Methodologie.
Veldwerk.
Anthropology > Fieldwork > Congresses.
Anthropology > Methodology > Congresses.
Anthropology > Philosophy > Congresses.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Congresses (form)
Kongress.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discipline and practice: "the field" as site, method, and location in anthropology / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
  • After Ishmael: the fieldwork tradition and its future / Henrika Kuklick
  • Locating the past / Mary Des Chene
  • News and culture: transitory phenomena and the fieldwork tradition / Liisa H. Malkki
  • African studies as American institution / Deborah Amory
  • The waxing and waning of "subfields" in North American sociocultural anthropology / Jane F. Collier
  • Anthropology and the cultural study of science: from citadels to string figures / Emily Martin
  • "You can't take the subway to the Field!": "village" epistemologies in the global village / Joanne Passaro
  • The virtual anthropologist / Kath Weston
  • Spatial practices: fieldwork, travel, and the disciplining of anthropology / James Clifford.

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