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Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology´s Method in a Time of Transition
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology´s Method in a Time of Transition
Paperback. Editor(s): Faubion, James D.; Marcus, George E. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JHBC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at ... Read more
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475115
SKU
V9780801475115
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About Roger Hargreaves
James Faubion is the Radoslav Tsanoff Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of An Anthropology of Ethics, The Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today, and Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is coauthor of Anthropology as ... Read more
Reviews for Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology´s Method in a Time of Transition
Fieldwork is Not What It Used to Be is an indispensable text for students, teachers, and for ethnographers of all stripes. Passionate, personal, and yet highly sophisticated , the volume shares with the wider intellectual community the methodological and theoretical orientation that has long defined the 'Rice School' of the ethnography of the contemporary. For many years the editors and ... Read more