{"product_id":"ethnographic-practice-in-the-present-9781845456160","title":"Ethnographic Practice in the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn its assessment of the current \"state of play\" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of \"the field\" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, cultural studies, human geography and linguistics, as well as the potential ‘costs’ of this success for the discipline. Contributors also discuss how the ethnographic method is influenced by current institutional contexts and historical \"traditions\" across a range of settings. Here ethnography is featured less as a methodological \"tool-box\" or technique but rather as a subject on which to reflect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJon P. Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnography and Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJohannes Fabian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJudith Okely\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Bringing ethnography home? Costs and benefits of methodological traffic across disciplines\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThomas Widlok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnography at the interface: ‘corporate social responsibility’ as an anthropological field of inquiry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eChristina Garsten\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Notes From Within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of Anthropological Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeorge E. Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Making Ethics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSharon Macdonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAlexei Elfimov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Getting the ethnography ‘right’: On female circumcision in exile\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAud Talle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal research in the Cross River region\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eUte Röschenthaler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of responses to AIDS\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCristiana Bastos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnography in motion: shifting fields on airport grounds\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDimitra Gefou-Madianou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue I:\u003c\/b\u003e Re-Presenting Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSimon Coleman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue II:\u003c\/b\u003e Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDouglas R. Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeorge E. Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042982265175,"sku":"9781845456160","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845456160.jpg?v=1750956512","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnographic-practice-in-the-present-9781845456160","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}