The ethnographic self as resource: writing memory and experience into ethnography

✍ Scribed by Gallinat, Anselma;Collins, Peter

Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography and shows how anthropologists can include their memories and experiences as ethnographic data in their writing. It discusses issues such as authenticity, translation and ethics in relation to the self, and offers a new perspective on doing ethnographic fieldwork

✦ Table of Contents

Prologue Peter Collins and Anselma Gallinat Chapter 1. The Ethnographic Self as Resource: an Introduction Peter Collins and Anselma Gallinat PART I: BEING SELF AND OTHER: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT HOME Chapter 2. Playing the Native Card: the Anthropologist as Informant in Eastern Germany Anselma Gallinat Chapter 3. Foregroundingthe Self in Fieldwork among Rural Women in Croatia Lynette Sikic-Micanovic Chapter 4. Some Reflections on the 'Enchantments' of Village Life, or Whose Story is This? Anne Kathrine Larsen Chapter 5. The Ethics of Participant Observation: Personal Reflections on Fieldwork in England Nigel Rapport PART II: WORKING ON/WITH/THROUGH MEMORY Chapter 6. Ethnographers as Language Learners: From Oblivion and Towards an Echo Alison Phipps Chapter 7. Leading Questions and Body Memories: a Case of Phenomenology and Physical Ethnography in the Dance Interview Jonathan Skinner Chapter 8. Dualling Memories: Twinship and the Disembodiment of Identity Dona Lee Davis and Dorothy I. Davis Chapter 9. Remembering and the Ethnography of Children's Sports Noel Dyck Chapter 10. Gardening in Time: Happiness and Memory in American Horticulture Jane Nadel-Klein PART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC SELVES THROUGH TIME Chapter 11. The Role of Serendipity and Memory in Experiencing Fields Tamara Kohn Chapter 12. Serendipities, Uncertainties and Improvisations in Movement and Migration Vered Amit Chapter 13. On Remembering and Forgetting in Writing and Fieldwork Simon Coleman Chapter 14. The Ethnographic Self as Resource? Peter Collins Chapter 15. Epilogue: What a Story we Anthropolgists Have to Tell! James W. Fernandez Notes on Contributors Index

✦ Subjects

Etnografi;Socialantropologiens metoder

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