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Title Locating the field : space, place and context in anthropology / edited by Simon Coleman and Peter Collins
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations
Series A.S.A. monographs, 0066-9679 ; 42
A.S.A. monographs ; 42. 0066-9679
Contents Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? : anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? Biography as field / Sigridur Duna Kristmundsdottir -- Diaspora, cosmopolis, global refuge : three voices of the supranational city / Nigel Rapport
Summary Takes a critical look at the developments and key issues in fieldwork in Anthropology. This book features various ethnographic studies that provide ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'. It shows that anthropologists are well-placed to examine and critique the totalizing assumptions behind these notions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anthropology -- Fieldwork
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork
Anthropologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Ethnologie
Feldforschung
Sociale geografie.
Culturele antropologie.
Internationalisatie.
74.00 (human) geography: general.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Form Electronic book
Author Coleman, Simon, 1963-
Collins, Peter (Peter Jeffrey)
ISBN 9781847882233
1847882234
9781474214148
1474214142
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9781282545588
9786612545580
6612545585
9781000183467
1000183467