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Author Bohannan, Paul

Title Asking and listening : ethnography as personal adaptation / Paul Bohannan, Dirk van der Elst
Published Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 107 pages)
Series Anthropology online
Anthropology online
Contents Part I Alien Beings with Human Faces 1 -- 1. The Others 3 -- 2. Becoming You 7 -- 3. Ethnography before Anthropology 10 -- 4. The Discovery of Culture and the Discovery of Comparison 14 -- Part II Improving the Observers 19 -- 5. The Beginnings of Ethnographic Fieldwork 21 -- 6. Participant Observation 24 -- 7. Using Alien Ideas to Examine Our Own 27 -- 8. Comparing Cultures 30 -- 9. The Morass of Cultural Relativism 33 -- 10. Premises and Ethnography 37 -- 11. Their Culture -- and Yours 41 -- 12. Does Ethnography Falsify Reality? 45 -- 13. Beyond Academe 50 -- 14. Culture Shock 52 -- 15. The Aliens Next Door 55 -- 16. The Collapse of Colonialism 58 -- 17. Who speaks for Whom? 62 -- Part III Ethnography as a Survival Mechanism 67 -- 18. The Democratization of Ethnography 69 -- 19. Ethnography and Applied Anthropology 72 -- 20. Ethnography in Business and Industry 76 -- 21. Ethnography and Creativity: Art, Science, and Engineering 78 -- 22. Ethnography and Government 82 -- 23. The Internet: Non-Lineal Ethnography 86 -- Part IV The Curse of Ethnocentrism 91 -- 24. Ethnocentrism in a Culture with Many Lifestyles 93 -- 25. Ethnocentrism in a Shrinking World 96 -- 26. Tempocentrism and the Future 100
Summary "Asking and Listening is the first book to trace the changing ways in which human beings have learned to look at "the Others Beyond the Gate" with their strange languages and stranger customs. Not a history of ethnography so much as a chronicle of its uses and potentials, Asking and Listening examines the premises of ethnography and concerns itself with a wide range of issues such as ethnocentrism and the morass of cultural relativism, the cultures of corporations, and the meaning of ethnography for government policy. It ends with an examination of the problems in charting our tomorrows: ethnography in the information age, and for the future. Through its pragmatic analysis of cultures as storehouses of alternatives in the way universal problems can and have been approached, Asking and Listening offers students not merely the opportunity to make sense of descriptions of other peoples' lifeways, but makes such ethnographic knowledge immediately useful in their own lives and choices and career plans. Book jacket"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Methodology.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology.
Ethnology
Ethnology -- Methodology
Ethnology -- Philosophy
Etnografie.
Veldwerk.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Ethnologie -- Méthodologie.
Ethnologie
Ethnology -- Methodology.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
Author Van der Elst, Dirk