ISBN:
9781789203400
Sprache:
Unbestimmte Sprache
Seiten:
186 p.
Ausgabe:
1st edition
Schlagwort(e):
portrait of alpine settlement;resistance to outsiders and modernization;two way process of research;villagers embrace four small children;act as participant observers;intrusion of observation;distorts ordinary life observed;challenges of multi vocality;economy;culture;history;ethnographic enterprise
Kurzfassung:
In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement – its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and “truth” are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Setting -- Chapter 3. Boundaries -- Chapter 4. Population -- Chapter 5. Children -- Chapter 6. School -- Chapter 7. Money and Property -- Chapter 8. Work -- Chapter 9. Animals -- Chapter 10. Marie -- Chapter 11. Caterina -- Chapter 12. Margherita -- Chapter 13. Martin -- Chapter 14. Twenty-five Years On -- Ethnographer’s Epilogue -- Cast of Characters -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WallmanSometime
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