| Description |
viii, 255 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The politics of representation on a Polynesian atoll / Niko Besnier -- On not knowing one's place / Michael Goldsmith -- A question of audience: the effects of what we write / Grant McCall -- The politics of ethnography in New Zealand / Toon van Meijl -- The Tikopia and "what Raymond said" / Judith Macdonald -- Will the true ethnographer step forward: the Asmat case / Sjoerd R. Jaarsma -- Writing about culture and talking about God: Christian ethnography in Melanesia / Mary N. MacDonald -- The enigmatic baining: the breaking of an ethnographer's heart / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Epilogue. Ethnography as a social system: parts, wholes, and holes / Jonathan Friedman |
| Summary |
Ethnographic Artifacts examines anthropological practice and product, confronting issues of representation and the power of discourse in the lives and practice of both those doing research and of those being researched. Using eight case studies by ethnographers who share extensive research experience in the Pacific, the volume outlines "the trouble with ethnography" so representative of the end of this century, where ethnography itself is perceived as a codification of contested relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-241) and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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| Author |
Jaarsma, S. R., editor
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Rohatynskyj, Marta, 1946- editor
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| LC no. |
99058503 |
| ISBN |
0824822250 |
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9780824822255 |
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0824823028 |
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9780824823023 |
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