ISBN:
9780415106580
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (204 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
DDC:
306/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Incomers and fieldworkers: a comparative study of social experience; 2 Making sense of new experience; 3Vicarious and sensory knowledge of chronology and change: ageing inrural France; 4 Veiled experiences: exploring female practices of seclusion; 5 Shared reasoning in the field: reflexivity beyond the author; 6The mysteries of incarnation: some problems to do with the analyticlanguage of practice; 7 On the relevance of common sense for anthropological knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
8Where the community reveals itself: reflexivity and moral judgment inKarpathos, Greece9 Time, ritual and social experience; 10Space and the 'other': social experience and ethnography in the Kalaharidebate; 11 Events and processes: marriages in Libya, 1932-79; 12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated: discussion; Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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