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Ethnographic Encounters
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and significance through ongoing efforts to create, sustain or remake a sense of home. The volume explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Preface Stephen Gudeman
- Introduction: Ethnography, dwelling and home-making
- 1 Studying gay sex in Beirut: The lascivious suture of home/field
- 2 Curtains, cars, and privacy: Experiences of dwelling and home-making in Azerbaijan
- 3 A lonely home: Balancing intimacy and estrangement in the field
- 4 Ethnography of police 'domestic abuse' interventions: Ethico-methodological reflections
- 5 Digging holes, posting signs, loading guns: Constructing home near the Grand Canyon
- 6 Becoming a planner: Participation and anticipation in producing home
- 7 Making a home with homeless people
- 8 A threshold space: Connecting a home in the city with the city
- 9 Making a home on a volcano
- 10 After the eviction: Navigating ambiguity in the ethnographic field
- 11 Acts of 'homing' in the Eastern Desert - How Syrian refugees make temporary homes in a village outside Zaatari Camp, Jordan
- 12 A house divided: Movement and race in urban ethnography
- Bibliography
- Index