Screen LibraryNavigators of the contemporary：why ethnography matters
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 152 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0226887529 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226887524 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q989 |
| CLC: | Q989-02 |
| Call Number: | Q989-02/W523 |
| Contents: |
Into the present -- The venture -- Culture everywhere and nowhere -- Conversation as another kind of solution -- This book and other books -- An ethnography for present situations -- What? -- Where? -- Who? -- How? -- Why? -- In the university -- Rupture and continuity -- Theory -- Fieldwork -- Writing -- One discipline among others -- The intellectual's situation -- The imaginary and the political -- Ethnography and the bureaucratic university -- From science to romance -- Reprise. As the image of the anthropologist exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the belief in the relevance of cultural anthropology has likewise diminished. This book argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist - ethnography - can still function as a way to understand our world. |