Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Autor George E. Marcusen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 dec 1998
The book is divided into three main parts. In the first, Marcus shows how ethnographers' tradition of defining fieldwork in terms of peoples and places is now being challenged by the need to study culture by exploring connections, parallels, and contrasts among a variety of often seemingly incommensurate sites. The second part illustrates this emergent multi-sited condition of research by reflecting it in some of Marcus's own past research on Tongan elites and dynastic American fortunes. In the final section, which includes the previously unpublished essay "Sticking with Ethnography through Thick and Thin," Marcus examines the evolving professional culture of anthropology and the predicaments of its new scholars. He shows how students have increasingly been drawn to the field as much by such powerful interdisciplinary movements as feminism, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies as by anthropology's own traditions. He also considers the impact of demographic changes within the discipline--in particular the fact that anthropologists are no longer almost exclusively Euro-Americans studying non-Euro-Americans. These changes raise new issues about the identities of anthropologists in relation to those they study, and indeed, about what is to define standards of ethnographic scholarship. Filled with keen and highly illuminating observations, Ethnography through Thick and Thin will stimulate fresh debate about the past, present, and future of a discipline undergoing profound transformations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691002538
ISBN-10: 0691002533
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 1, black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
ISBN-10: 0691002533
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 1, black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
Descriere
Presents a series of essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. This book examines how the discipline's central practice of ethnography has been changed by "multi-sited" approaches to anthropology and how new research patterns are transforming anthropologists' careers.