Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

ISBN 10: 1405125926 / ISBN 13: 9781405125925

Edité par WB, 2006

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Synopsis :

Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader provides a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary reflections, examining the tensions between self and other, the relationships between anthropologists and informants, conflicts and ethical challenges, various types of ethnographic research, and different styles of writing about fieldwork. * Discusses fieldwork in general, as opposed to its formal methods * Presents a good sense of the historical and conceptual development of fieldwork as the predominant methodological approach of social and cultural anthropology * Includes introductory chapter and 38 leading articles on ethnographic fieldwork in cultural anthropology, organized around ten themes - Beginnings; Fieldwork Identity; Fieldwork Relations and Rapport; The Other Talks Back; Conflicts, Hazards, and Dangers in Fieldwork; Ethics; Multi-Sited Fieldwork; Sensorial Fieldwork; Reflexive Ethnography; and Fictive Fieldwork and Fieldwork Novels.

À propos de l'auteur: Antonius C.G.M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and the past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author or editor of a number of books, most recently Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader (Blackwell 2004), and Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, 2000). Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. Sluka was past Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is the author of Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto (1989) and editor of Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (2000).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological ...
Éditeur : WB
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good