Being There : The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth

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Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that eth...

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Auteur principal: Borneman, John
Autres auteurs: Hammoudi, Abdellah
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780520943438

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