Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-339-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement – its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and “truth” are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallman, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Perspectives

Chapter 2. Setting

Chapter 3. Boundaries

Chapter 4. Population

Chapter 5. Children

Chapter 6. School

Chapter 7. Money and Property

Chapter 8. Work

Chapter 9. Animals

Chapter 10. Marie

Chapter 11. Caterina

Chapter 12. Margherita

Chapter 13. Martin

Chapter 14. Twenty-five Years On

Ethnographer’s Epilogue

Cast of Characters

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wallman, Sandra
Sandra Wallman ­is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Her many publications include ­Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology­ (Routledge, 1992),­­ The Capability of Places­ (Pluto Press, 2011), and the short story collection Listening for Water (Troubador, 2016).

Sandra Wallman ­is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Her many publications include ­Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology­ (Routledge, 1992),­­ The Capability of Places­ (Pluto Press, 2011), and the short story collection Listening for Water (Troubador, 2016).