Locating the Field

Space, Place and Context in Anthropology
Herausgeber: Coleman, Simon; Collins, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of 'locality' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must now be maintained and represented in relation to widening (and fragmenting) social frames and networks. Such developments have raised questions concerning the nature of ethnographic presence and scales of comparison. From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that provide new ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'. It shows that rather than taking key fieldwork processes such as globalization and mobility for granted, anthropologists are well-placed to examine and critique the totalizing assumptions behind these notions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781845204037
• ISBN-10: 1845204034
• Artikelnr.: 21748113

Autorenporträt

Simon Coleman is Professor of Anthropology, University of Sussex. Peter Collins is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Being...Where?' Performing Fields on Shifting Grounds Simon Coleman
University of Sussex
and Peter Collins
University of Durham* Studying Down
Up
Sideways
Through
Backwards
Forwards
Away and at Home: Reflections on the Field Worries of an Expansive DisciplineUlf Hannerz
University of Stockholm* Beyond the Verandah: Fieldwork
Locality and the Production of Knowledge in a South African CityLeslie Bank
Rhodes University* Fieldwork on Foot: Perceiving
Routing
SocializingJo Lee and Time Ingold* Rendering and Gendering Mobile Subjects in a Globalized World of Mountaineering: Between Localizing Ethnography and Global SpacesSusan Frohlick
University of Manitoba* Post-Diasporic Indian Communities: A New GenerationAnjoom Mukadam
Lancaster University
Centre for Excellence in Leadership
and Sharmina Mawani
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London* The Internet
Cybercafes and the New Social Spaces of Bangalorean YouthNicholas Nisbett
University of Sussex* Out of Proportion? Anthropological Description of Power
Regeneration and Scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New GuineaJames Leach
Cambridge University* Far from the Trobriands? Biography as FieldSigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir
University of Iceland* Diaspora
Cosmopolis
Global Refuge: Three Voices of the Supranational City Nigel Rapport
Concordia University of Montreal.