Constructing the Field : Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

ISBN-13: 9780415198301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str.

Vered Amit

Opis

In an increasingly globalized world how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing? In this volume anthropologists give a thorough appraisal of what fieldwork is, and what it should be.

Spis treści

List of contributors, 1 Introduction: constructing the field, 2 At ‘home’ and ‘away’: reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology, 3 Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children’s sports, 4 Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork, 5 The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion, 6 ‘Informants’ who come ‘home’, 7 Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork ‘at home’, 8 Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career, 9 Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational Practice, Index

O autorze

Vered Amit