The Ethnographic Moment
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The Ethnographic Moment
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Author : Robert Redfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Ethnographic Moment written by Robert Redfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Social Science categories.
The first fifty years of the twentieth century were a time of ferment in American anthropology. American ethnographic work evolved from the "salvage" work of professionals affiliated with museums who undertook to document with artifacts and testimony the threatened traditional way of life among the Native American tribes, to the establishment of anthropology as a science, represented in university departments, that sought to describe the "ethnographic present" of isolated primitive peoples, often in distant parts of the world. By the beginning of the 1950s, cultural anthropology discovered the peasant. Robert Redfield, himself a leading figure in this paradigm shift, challenged anthropology's focus on a static model of the isolated primitive community, pointing out the dynamic nature of the "little communities" he studied in Mesoamerica. These were not isolated communities, but rather local, traditional cultures located well within the sphere of a complex urban culture. In order to distinguish the "great tradition" deriving from urban centers from the "little tradition" of a more primitive culture, Redfield believed anthropology needed to refer to other disciplines, such as theology, philosophy, economics, and sociology. In other words, anthropology had to develop from the collection of material artifacts to a concern with the immaterial realm of values and ideas. This collection of essays and previously unpublished papers, The Ethnographic Moment, tells the story of a remarkable chapter in Redfield's pioneering efforts on what was then an anthropological frontier. The present volume covers the years from 1952 to 1958, the last of Redfield's life. It focuses solely on his study of peasant communities. At the core of the book is his correspondence with the philosopher-humanist F. G. Friedmann, who played an important role in Redfield's conceptualization of the complex urban-rural continuum that characterizes the peasant's world. The volume also includes an autobiographical introduction by Friedmann that illuminates both his own writings and the humanistic background that motivated his study of peasantry.
Methods Moments And Ethnographic Spaces In Asia
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Author : Nayantara S. Appleton
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-15
Methods Moments And Ethnographic Spaces In Asia written by Nayantara S. Appleton and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Asia is changing. Socio-political shifts in the world economy, technological advances of monumental scales, movements of people and ideas, alongside ongoing post-colonization projects across the region have created an emerging Asia – one confident and assertive of its place in the contemporary geopolitical sphere. As political and economic powers reassert Asian sovereignty in opposition to perceived Northern dominance, and dramatic and rapid development in the region shift the relationship between the centre and the periphery, new renderings and imaginations of hierarchies of identity and power come to the fore. This changing environment leads to emerging challenges for anthropologists working in the region: both those who have been working there for years, and new scholars entering the field. This volume considers these changes, and the implications of this on our practice. By focusing on Asia as a site of enquiry, the contributors to this book discuss tensions and opportunities arising in their ethnographic fieldwork in light of a changing Asia. Drawing on personal reflections on Asia’s global positioning in this contemporary moment, the contributors consider how fieldwork is being negotiated within the changing dynamics of anthropology in the region. This book then, is a discussion on the shifting landscape of field sites and the resultant emerging research methodologies, and is aimed at those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork as well as those who are seeking ways to undertake it.
In The Event
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Author : Lotte Meinert
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-05-01
In The Event written by Lotte Meinert and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world—varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management—this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events—including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique—are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.
A Moment S Notice
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Author : Carol J. Greenhouse
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
A Moment S Notice written by Carol J. Greenhouse and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.
The Ethnographic Eye
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Author : Heidi Ross
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
The Ethnographic Eye written by Heidi Ross and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Education categories.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ethnographic Explorations
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Author : Emilie Morwenna Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-22
Ethnographic Explorations written by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-22 with Social Science categories.
In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; amd Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings. The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.
Zaria S Fire
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Author : Nancy Lutkehaus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Zaria S Fire written by Nancy Lutkehaus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
In an outstanding example of the new dialogical anthropology, Nancy Lutkehaus skillfully interweaves the voices of three generations of Manam Islanders with those of two women anthropologists who lived and worked among them--one British, a member of England's intellectual aristocracy, the other, a middle-class American--to create a multivocal, cross-cultural conversation about men and women, power and authority, and colonialism and post-colonialism in Papua New Guinea. Using unpublished diaries, notebooks, and photographs from 1930s anthropologist Camilla Wedgwood, juxtaposed with her own contemporary field material and that of government officials, Catholic missionaries, and local scholars, Lutkehaus contrasts her narrative of Manam cultural resilience with Wedgwood's story of demoralization and inevitable cultural disintegration. More than simply a reinterpretation of Manam history or an explanation of why Wedgwood's prediction of cultural disintegration did not come about, Lutkehaus's argument reveals as much about epistemological shifts in anthropological knowledge and discourse as it does about the nature of Manam society. Her analysis situates Wedgewood's interpretation of Manam culture within the colonial context of British social anthropology as taught by Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown--Wedgewood's mentors--between the wars. Zaria's Fire will be of interest not only to scholars of Melanesia, but to students of gender studies, ethnography, anthropology, and colonial culture. "Instead of backing away from the problem of ethnographic authority, Lutkehaus...addresses it in the only way it can be solved, by contextualizing the excellent analyses and interpretations that she gives. This is an excellent depiction of a complex social setting as well as a fascinating treatment of an interesting and increasingly important anthropological problem of accommodation to the ethnographic authority of others." -- American Anthropologist
An Ethnographic Inventory
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Author : Tomás Sánchez Criado
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-09
An Ethnographic Inventory written by Tomás Sánchez Criado and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Social Science categories.
This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of relational invention. It advances contemporary debates in ethnography by arguing that the empirical practice of anthropology is and has always been an inventive activity. Bringing together contributions from scholars across the world, the volume offers an expansive vision of the resourcefulness that anthropologists unfold in their empirical investigations by compiling inventive social and material techniques, or field devices, for anthropological inquiry. The chapters seek to inspire both novel and experienced practitioners of ethnography to venture into the many possibilities of fieldwork, to demonstrate the essential creative and inventive practices neglected in traditional accounts of ethnography, and to invite anthropologists to confidently engage in inventive fieldwork practices.
The Ethnographic Self
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Author : Amanda Coffey
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1999-03-10
The Ethnographic Self written by Amanda Coffey and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-10 with Social Science categories.
What are the relationships between the self and fieldwork? How do personal, emotional and identity issues impact upon working in the field? This book argues that ethnographers, and others involved in fieldwork, should be aware of how fieldwork research and ethnographic writing construct, reproduce and implicate selves, relationships and personal identities. All too often research methods texts remain relatively silent about the ways in which fieldwork affects us and we affect the field. The book attempts to synthesize accounts of the personal experience of ethnography. In doing so, the author makes sense of the process of fieldwork research as a set of practical, intellectual and emotional accomplishments. The book is thematically arranged, and illustrated with a wide range of empirical material.
Ethnographic Worldviews
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Author : Robert E. Rinehart
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-09-24
Ethnographic Worldviews written by Robert E. Rinehart and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-24 with Social Science categories.
This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues and concerns—with specific exemplars from around the globe—for ethnographers. 'Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice' will have its "finger on the pulse" of contemporary ethnography. Chapters demonstrate up-to-the-moment awareness of ethnographic methods, concerns, and subject matters within contemporary ethnographic writing. Authors are deeply engaged in both their subject matter and their method. For example, discussion of ethical issues surrounding visual methods of "collecting" for photo-ethnographies is anticipated as a potential hot topic for this book. Unlike other ethnographic books which often suggest "giving voice to others", this book will actually give voice to a wide variety of perspectives, from the points of view of researchers.