Ethnographic Practice in the Present (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Melhuus, Marit; Wulff, Helena; Mitchell, Jon P.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857455437
• Artikelnr.: 39603246

Autorenporträt

Jon P. Mitchell is Reader in anthropology at the University of Sussex. His main ethnographic research was conducted in Malta, covering themes of ritual and religion, politics and the state, history, memory and modernity, and popular culture. His publications include Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta (Routledge, 2002), Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief (jointly edited with Paul Clough, Berghahn, 2002), Modernity in the Mediterranean (edited special issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2002), Human Rights in Global Perspective (jointly edited with Richard Ashby Wilson, Routledge, 2003). His current research focuses on the religious origins of secular charity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jon P. Mitchell
Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory
Johannes Fabian
Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage
Judith Okely
Chapter 3. Bringing ethnography home? Costs and benefits of methodological
traffic across disciplines
Thomas Widlok
Chapter 4. Ethnography at the interface: 'corporate social responsibility'
as an anthropological field of inquiry
Christina Garsten
Chapter 5. Notes From Within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of
Anthropological Method
George E. Marcus
Chapter 6. Making Ethics
Sharon Macdonald
Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian
Anthropology
Alexei Elfimov
Chapter 8. Getting the ethnography 'right': On female circumcision in exile
Aud Talle
Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal research in the Cross
River region
Ute Röschenthaler
Chapter 10. Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of
responses to AIDS
Cristiana Bastos
Chapter 11. Ethnography in motion: shifting fields on airport grounds
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
Epilogue I: Re-Presenting Anthropology
Simon Coleman
Epilogue II: Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography
Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
Bibliography
Index