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The Ethnographic Self as Resource: Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

✍ Scribed by Peter Collins (editor); Anselma Gallinat (editor)

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
270
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. 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

CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Chapter 1 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE: AN INTRODUCTION
PART I BEING SELF AND OTHER: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT HOME
Chapter 2 PLAYING THE NATIVE CARD: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS INFORMANT IN EASTERN GERMANY
Chapter 3 FOREGROUNDING THE SELF IN FIELDWORK AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN CROATIA
Chapter 4 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ‘ENCHANTMENTS’ OF VILLAGE LIFE, OR WHOSE STORY IS THIS?
Chapter 5 THE ETHICS OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN ENGLAND
PART II WORKING ON/WITH/THROUGH MEMORY
Chapter 6 ETHNOGRAPHERS AS LANGUAGE LEARNERS: FROM OBLIVION AND TOWARDS AN ECHO
Chapter 7 LEADING QUESTIONS AND BODY MEMORIES: A CASE OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHYSICAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE DANCE INTERVIEW
Chapter 8 DUALLING MEMORIES: TWINSHIP AND THE DISEMBODIMENT OF IDENTITY
Chapter 9 REMEMBERING AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CHILDREN’S SPORTS
Chapter 10 GARDENING IN TIME: HAPPINESS AND MEMORY IN AMERICAN HORTICULTURE
PART III ETHNOGRAPHIC SELVES THROUGH TIME
Chapter 11 THE ROLE OF SERENDIPITY AND MEMORY IN EXPERIENCING FIELDS
Chapter 12 SERENDIPITIES, UNCERTAINTIES AND IMPROVISATIONS IN MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION
Chapter 13 ON REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN WRITING AND FIELDWORK
Chapter 14 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE?
Chapter 15 EPILOGUE: WHAT A STORY WE ANTHROPOLOGISTS HAVE TO TELL!
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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