ISBN:
9780415198295
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (208 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Constructing the Field : Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World
DDC:
305.800723
Keywords:
Field work
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Constructing the Field is a timely contribution to a highly topical debate. Accessible and comprehensive, it will be an essential resource for both students and scholars of anthropology.〈/I〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: constructing the field; At 'home' and 'away': reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology; Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children's sports; Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork; The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion; 'Informants' who come 'home'; Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork 'at home'; Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career
Description / Table of Contents:
Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational practiceIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
