Time and the Field

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78533-087-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalsgaard, Steffen

Nielsen, Morten

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Time and the Field

Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen

Chapter 1. Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice

Antonia Walford

Chapter 2. The Time of the State and the Temporality of the Gavman in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea

Steffen Dalsgaard

Chapter 3. Out of Conclusion: On Recurrence and Open-Endedness in Life and Analysis

Anne Line Dalsgaard and Martin Demant Frederiksen

Chapter 4. Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork

Ton Otto

Chapter 5. Surfacing Moves: Spatial-Timings of Senior Home Care

Peter A. Lutz

Chapter 6. Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual: Recurring Fieldwork in the Brazilian Candomblé

Inger Sjørslev

Chapter 7. Episodic Fieldwork, Updating, and Sociability

Michael Whyte

Chapter 8. Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia

Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen

Afterword: Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced

George Marcus

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nielsen, Morten
Morten Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University and coordinator of the interdisciplinary research network Urban Orders (URO). Recent publications include articles in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Analysis, and Social Anthropology.

Dalsgaard, Steffen
Steffen Dalsgaard is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is currently deputy chair of the Young Academy of Denmark. Among his recent publications are articles in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Anthropology, Environment and Society, and Social Analysis.

Steffen Dalsgaard is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is currently deputy chair of the Young Academy of Denmark. Among his recent publications are articles in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Anthropology, Environment and Society, and Social Analysis.