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Author Wallman, Sandra, author

Title Sometime kin : layers of memory, boundaries of ethnography / Sandra Wallman
Published New York : Berghahn, 2020
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Description 1 online resource
Contents Perspectives -- Setting -- Boundaries -- Population -- Children -- School -- Money and property -- Work -- Animals -- Marie -- Caterina -- Margherita -- Martin -- Twenty-five years on
Summary "In Sometime Kin Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this, journal extracts show 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"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis act as participant observers
challenges of multi vocality
culture
distorts ordinary life observed
economy
ethnographic enterprise
history
intrusion of observation
portrait of alpine settlement
resistance to outsiders and modernization
two way process of research
villagers embrace four small children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2019)
Subject Ethnology -- Italy -- Bellino
Participant observation.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnology
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
Manners and customs
Participant observation
SUBJECT Bellino (Italy) -- Social life and customs
Subject Italy -- Bellino
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019034513
ISBN 1789203406
9781789203400