Being there: the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520257764
Date de publication :
4 févr. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
408 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.