Being There : the Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth.
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that eth...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943438 0520943430 0520257766 0520257758 9780520257757 9780520257764 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |