Ethnographic Practice in the Present

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-159-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Reihe: EASA Series

In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential ‘costs’ of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by current institutional contexts and historical "traditions" across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a methodological "tool-box" or technique but rather as a subject on which to reflect.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melhuus, Marit

Mitchell, Jon P.

Wulff, Helena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Jon P. Mitchell

Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory

Johannes Fabian

Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage

Judith Okely

Chapter 3. Bringing ethnography home? Costs and benefits of methodological traffic across disciplines

Thomas Widlok

Chapter 4. Ethnography at the interface: ‘corporate social responsibility’ as an anthropological field of inquiry

Christina Garsten

Chapter 5. Notes From Within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of Anthropological Method

George E. Marcus

Chapter 6. Making Ethics

Sharon Macdonald

Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian Anthropology

Alexei Elfimov

Chapter 8. Getting the ethnography ‘right’: On female circumcision in exile

Aud Talle

Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal research in the Cross River region

Ute Röschenthaler

Chapter 10. Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of responses to AIDS

Cristiana Bastos

Chapter 11. Ethnography in motion: shifting fields on airport grounds

Dimitra Gefou-Madianou

Epilogue I: Re-Presenting Anthropology

Simon Coleman

Epilogue II: Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography

Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melhuus, Marit
Marit Melhuus is Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her earlier work has been on issues of gender, morality and change in Latin America, and her publications include Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery (co-edited with Kristi Anne Stølen, Verso, 1996). Her current research concerns biotechnology, kinship, and law, and she has published numerous articles on these questions. Recent publications include Holding Worlds Together. Ethnographies of Truth and Belonging (co-edited with Marianne Lien, Berghahn, 2007) and La Norvège, vues de l’intérieur, a special issue of Ethnologie francaise (jointly edited with Sophie Chevalier and Marianne Lien, 2009).

Mitchell, Jon P.
Jon P. Mitchell is Reader in anthropology at the University of Sussex. His main ethnographic research was conducted in Malta, covering themes of ritual and religion, politics and the state, history, memory and modernity, and popular culture. His publications include Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta (Routledge, 2002), Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief (jointly edited with Paul Clough, Berghahn, 2002), Modernity in the Mediterranean (edited special issue of Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2002), Human Rights in Global Perspective (jointly edited with Richard Ashby Wilson, Routledge, 2003). His current research focuses on the religious origins of secular charity.

Wulff, Helena
Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research interests focus on expressive forms of culture in a transnational perspective, with a recent interest in writing and Irish literature as cultural process and form. Among her latest publications are Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland (2008, Berghahn), The Emotions: A Cultural Reader (editor, 2007, Berg), and Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers (Berg, 1998, reprinted 2001). She is also Editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Marit Melhuus is Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her earlier work has been on issues of gender, morality and change in Latin America, and her publications include Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery (co-edited with Kristi Anne Stølen, Verso, 1996). Her current research concerns biotechnology, kinship, and law, and she has published numerous articles on these questions. Recent publications include Holding Worlds Together. Ethnographies of Truth and Belonging (co-edited with Marianne Lien, Berghahn, 2007) and La Norvège, vues de l’intérieur, a special issue of Ethnologie francaise (jointly edited with Sophie Chevalier and Marianne Lien, 2009).