Excursions in realist anthropology : a merological approach / by David Zeitlyn and Roger Just.
Realism has become a dirty word in some social sciences, yet, despite fashionable new approaches involving multiple ontologies and the like, when anthropologists actually produce ethnographic accounts they are, still, indulging in realism in some form. Perhaps this is why ethnography, too, is unfash...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2014.
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| Summary: | Realism has become a dirty word in some social sciences, yet, despite fashionable new approaches involving multiple ontologies and the like, when anthropologists actually produce ethnographic accounts they are, still, indulging in realism in some form. Perhaps this is why ethnography, too, is unfashionable. Given the authors' background as anthropologists committed to fieldwork, this book provides a theoretical grounding to justify and explain the sorts of accounts that anthropologists produc .. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 156 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1443869163 9781443869164 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |