| Description |
199 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
European Association of Social Anthropologists |
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European Association of Social Anthropologists
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: constructing the field / Vered Amit -- 2. At 'home' and 'away': reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology / Virginia Caputo -- 3. Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children's sports / Noel Dyck -- 4. Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork / Caroline Knowles -- 5. The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion / Nigel Rapport -- 6. 'Informants' who come 'home' / Sarah Pink -- 7. Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork 'at home' / Karin Norman -- 8. Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career / Helena Wulff -- 9. Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational practice / Sarah Strauss |
| Summary |
In an increasingly globalised world, how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing? In this book, anthropologists provide a thorough and critical appraisal of what fieldwork is and what it should be |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
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| Author |
Amit, Vered, 1955-
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European Association of Social Anthropologists.
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| LC no. |
99024309 |
| ISBN |
0415198291 |
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0415198305 |
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