Being there : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth

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Being there : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth

Title remainder

the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth

Statement of responsibility

edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi

Creator

• Borneman, John

Contributor

• Hammoudi, Abdellah

Subject

• Anthropology -- Fieldwork
• Ethnology -- Fieldwork

Language

eng

Summary

Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift

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• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

305.8/00723

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

GN346

LC item number

.B443 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography