Knowing how to know : fieldwork and the ethnographic present /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:EASA series ; 9
EASA series ; v. 9.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14137084
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Other authors / contributors:Halstead, Narmala.
Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
Okely, Judith, 1941-
ISBN:9780857450692
0857450697
128262704X
9781282627048
9781845454388
1845454383
9781845454777
1845454774
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place?. Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the embodied knowledge of ballet.
Other form:Print version: Knowing how to know. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008 9781845454388