ISBN:
9781405161305
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9781405169813
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9780470766330
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0470692456
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0470766336
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9780470692455
,
9780470766330
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 302 p)
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Shadow Side of Fieldwork : Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life
DDC:
305.80072/3
Keywords:
Ethnology Fieldwork
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Ethnology Moral and ethical aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
TheShadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research. Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by researchers who examine the subjectivities inherent in their
Description / Table of Contents:
The Shadow Side of Fieldwork : Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword: In the Shadows: Anthropological Encounters with Modernity; Acknowledgments; "Learn to Value Your Shadow!" An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork; Part I Secrecy and Silence in the Ethnographic Encounter; 1 Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives as Intimate Ethnography; 2 When Things Get Personal: Secrecy, Intimacy, and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Transmutations of Experience: Approaching the Reality of Shadows3 The Scene: Shadowing the Real; 4 Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation; Part III Epistemic Shadows; 5 Shining a Light into the Shadow of Death: Terminal Care Discourse and Practice in the Late 20th Century; 6 The Hidden Side of the Moon, or, "Lifting Out" in Ethnographies; Part IV The Politics of Ethnographic Encounter: Negotiating Power in the Shadow; 7 The Gray Zone: Small Wars, Peacetime Crimes, and Invisible Genocides; 8 Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning, and Displacement
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Falling into Fieldwork: Lessons from a Desperate Search for SurvivalPart V Blurred Borders in the Ethnographic Encounter of Self and Other; 10 Field Research on the Run: One More for the Road; 11 Personal Travels through Otherness; 12 When the Borders of Research and Personal Life Become Blurred: Thorny Issues in Conducting Dementia Research; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470692455
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470692455
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470692455
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