Being there the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth Libro electrónico

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. InBeing 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 attention back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic encounter. From an Inuit village to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork yields important insights outside the reach of textual analysis.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Borneman, John editor, Hammoudi, Abdellah editor/a
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berkeley University of California Press c200
Subjects:	Ethnology,
Online Access:	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pphf4
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