Ethnographic Practice in the Present.

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 cha...

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Main Author: Melhuus, Marit
Other Authors: Mitchell, Jon P., Wulff, Helena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Series:EASA series.
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505 0 |a Ethnographic Practice in the Present; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory; Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage; Chapter 3. Bringing Ethnography Home?; Chapter 4. Ethnography at the Interface; Chapter 5. Notes from Within a Laboratory the Reinvention of Anthropological Method; Chapter 6. Making Ethics; Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods; Chapter 8. Getting the Ethnography 'Right'; Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations?; Chapter 10. Tracking Global Flows and Still Moving. 
505 8 |a Chapter 11. Ethnography in MotionEpilogue 1. Re-presenting Anthropology; Epilogue 2. Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography; Index. 
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