ISBN:
9781789203400
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
186 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
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
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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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