ISBN:
9780203810156
,
9781136680137
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 219 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in research methods 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods
DDC:
305.80072
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Ethnologie
;
Feldforschung
Abstract:
This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa - including George Marcus himself, the person most associated with the term and the method. These researchers were brought together not only to discuss the shifting meaning of the concept in anthropology, but also to see how it has influenced actual research projects that have spanned the world. The volume that has resu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Queries, Collaborations, Calibrations; 2 Multi-sited Ethnography: Five or Six Things I Know About It Now; Part A Spatialities of the Field; Part A Introduction; 3 Researching Lives in Motion: Multi-sited Strategies in a Transnational Context; 4 The Unwelcome Ethnographer, or What 'Our' People (May) Think of Multi-sited Research; 5 Exploring Senegalese Translocal Spaces: Reflections on Multi-sited Research
Description / Table of Contents:
Part B Challenging Conventions?: Multi-sited Ethnographies of Institutions and ProcessesPart B Introduction; 6 'What do You Call the Heathen These Days?': For and Against Renewal in the Norwegian Mission Society; 7 From Boardrooms to Mineshafts: In Pursuit of Global Corporate Citizenship; 8 Understanding HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Sites and Positions; Part C Multiple Pathways and the Price of Liberation; Part C Introduction; 9 Migratory Birds, Migratory Scientists, and Shifting Fields: The Political Ecology of a Northern Coastline
Description / Table of Contents:
10 The Anxieties of Engaging in Multi-sited PhD Research: Reflections on Researching Indigenous Rights Processes in Venezuela11 Teaching with George Marcus (and Learning from Michael Fischer): Pedagogy as Multi-sited Ethnography; 12 Novelty and Method: Reflections on Global Fieldwork; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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