Ethnography A Theoretically Oriented Practice
This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it further explores new lines of...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Theoretically Oriented Practice
- Part I: Grounds for sociocultural anthropology: USA, UK, FR, IT
- Chapter 2: Ethnography before ethnography. Genesis and developments of field research in North America
- Chapter 3: Before and after Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British social anthropology and the problem of the relationship between fieldwork methods, ethnography and theory
- Chapter 4: “Ethnography in France”. Ethnographic practices and theories from Marcel Mauss to Marcel Griaule
- Chapter 5: The Structural Formula of the Team. Reflections on the Ethnographic Method of Ernesto de Martino
- Part II. Anthropology (Theory) vs Ethnography (Fieldwork)
- Chapter 6: Illusion of immediate knowledge (immediacy) or spiritual exercise? The dialogic exchange and the Pierre Bourdieu’s ethnography
- Chapter 7: “A conspiracy of silence”: George Balandier and the study of African slavery and post-slavery
- Chapter 8: The Bridge and the Dance: Situational Analysis in Anthropology
- Chapter 9: Politics within Cultural and Social Anthropology
- Chapter 10: Stumbling blocks. The irruption of the interpretive approach in twentieth century anthropology
- Part III. Visual, Dialogical, Sensorial, Multi-sited ethnography
- Chapter 11: The anthropologist’s eye: Ethnography, visual practices, images
- Chapter 12: Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. The dialogic turn in anthropology
- Chapter 13: Embodiment and Ethnography
- Chapter 14: Exploring Mobility through Mobility. The Challenges of Multi-sited Ethnography from Marcus and Hannerz to nowadays
- Part IV: Deconstructions
- Chapter 15: Participant observation. The personal commitment in native life: A problematic methodological topos
- Chapter 16: The Weberian line of anthropology: George E. Marcus from Writing Culture to Design
- Chapter 17: Making the Invisible ethnography Visible. The peculiar relationship between Italian anthropology and feminism
- Chapter 18: Beyond the field: literature, theory and ethnographic writing