Home : ethnographic encounters

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The work Home : ethnographic encounters represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Home : ethnographic encounters

Title remainder

ethnographic encounters

Statement of responsibility

edited by Johannes Lenhard and Farhan Samanani

Contributor

• Lenhard, Johannes
• Samanani, Farhan

Editor

• Lenhard, Johannes
• Samanani, Farhan

Subject

• Ethnology
• Home -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and significance through ongoing efforts to create, sustain or remake a sense of home. The volume explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home

Cataloging source

OCoLC-P

Dewey number

306.4

Index

index present

LC call number

GN414

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Encounters: experience and anthropological knowledge