Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South
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Paperback. Editor(s): Puri, Shalini; Castillo, Debra A. Num Pages: 267 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 280 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the ... Read more
This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349928361
SKU
V9781349928361
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99-15
About Puri
Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. Her edited collections include The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and (with ... Read more
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