Ethnographic Practice in the Present
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Ethnographic Practice in the Present

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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Ethnographic Practice in the Present

About this book

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 current institutional contexts and historical "traditions" across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a methodological "tool-box" or technique but rather as a subject on which to reflect.

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Yes, you can access Ethnographic Practice in the Present by Marit Melhuus, Jon P. Mitchell, Helena Wulff, Marit Melhuus,Jon P. Mitchell,Helena Wulff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory
  10. Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage
  11. Chapter 3. Bringing Ethnography Home? Costs and Benefits of Methodological Traffic across Disciplines
  12. Chapter 4. Ethnography at the Interface: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ as an Anthropological Field of Enquiry
  13. Chapter 5. Notes From within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of Anthropological Method
  14. Chapter 6. Making Ethics
  15. Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian Anthropology
  16. Chapter 8. Getting the Ethnography ‘Right’: On Female Circumcision in Exile
  17. Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal Research in the Cross River Region
  18. Chapter 10. Tracking Global Flows and Still Moving: The Ethnography of Responses to AIDS
  19. Chapter 11. Ethnography in Motion: Shifting Fields on Airport Grounds
  20. Epilogue 1. Re-presenting Anthropology
  21. Epilogue 2. Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography
  22. Index