Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader

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Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Jeffrey A. Sluka
John Wiley & Sons, 24.01.2012 - 672 Seiten
Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer’s experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.
  • Offers an international collection of classic and contemporary readings to provide students with a broad understanding of historical, methodological, ethical, reflexive and stylistic issues in fieldwork
  • Features 16 new articles and revised part introductions, with additional insights into the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork
  • Explores the importance of fieldwork practice in achieving the core theoretical and methodological goals of anthropology
  • Highlights the personal and professional challenges of field researchers, from issues of professional identity, fieldwork relations, activism, and the conflicts, hazards and ethical concerns of community work.
 

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Inhalt

Beginnings
49
The Methods of Ethnology
63
Fieldwork Identity
83
Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork
114
Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing
124
Fieldwork Relations and Rapport
135
Ethnography
153
The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims
175
Lessons From
318
Ethics versus Realism in Anthropology
331
Space Identity and the Politics of Difference
374
Afghanistan Ethnography and the New World Order
387
Sensorial Fieldwork
441
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
465
Interpreting How Kaluli Read Sound and Sentiment
480
Cultural Categories
496

The Other Talks Back
191
Custer Died for Your Sins
199
Here Come the Anthros
207
Ire in Ireland
219
Fieldwork Conflicts Hazards and Dangers
235
Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting
244
The Ethnographers Tale
256
Fieldwork Ethics
297
Reflexive Ethnography
511
The Way Things Are Said
528
Critical Reflections on Fieldwork
547
Engaged Fieldwork
563
Scholarship Advocacy and the Politics of Engagement
579
Past Present and Future Applications
593
Key Ethnographic Sociological Qualitative
612
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (2012)

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. He is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), and editor of Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom, 1995) and Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (2010).

Jeffrey A. Sluka is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. He is past Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, 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).

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelEthnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader
Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
HerausgeberAntonius C. G. M. Robben, Jeffrey A. Sluka
Ausgabe2, illustriert
VerlagJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN0470657154, 9780470657157
Länge672 Seiten
  
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