Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 S.)
Edition:
2014
Series Statement:
Haney Foundation Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnography in Today's World : Color Full Before Color Blind
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: In Ethnography in Today's World, anthropologist Roger Sanjek addresses the essential practice and purpose of ethnography in ethnically diverse settings. Drawing on decades of globe-spanning fieldwork, he examines how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, and communicated in today's interconnected world.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Roger Sanjek is a J. I. Staley Prize winner, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and the author and editor of many books, including Gray Panthers, which is also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Race (edited with Steven Gregory), and The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.
Description / Table of Contents:
FrontmatterContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York CityChapter 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in QueensChapter 3. What Ethnographies Leave OutChapter 4. EthnographyChapter 5. Anthropology’s Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their EthnographersChapter 6. The Ethnographic PresentChapter 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political ActivismChapter 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in AmericaChapter 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to FutureChapter 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural ThingsChapter 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing WorldChapter 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of EthnographyNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208764
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