{"product_id":"experimenting-with-ethnography-9781478011996","title":"Experimenting with Ethnography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperimenting with Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, \u003ci\u003eExperimenting with Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This innovative book about ethnography as knowledge provokes in all the right ways. Packed with concrete and creative suggestions for doing, writing, and teaching ethnography well beyond anthropology, \u003ci\u003eExperimenting with Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e offers thoughtful inspiration for anyone seeking to sharpen their analytical skills.” -- Carole McGranahan, editor of * Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment *\u003cbr\u003e“Along with much else, analysis is at risk today, as it is equated with actionable findings, tempting us to bracket everything that's confusing. What to do? Let this stunning gathering of anthropologists surprise, puzzle, and enlighten you: their work opens up an altogether different mode of analysis, one that expands the range of incompatibilities that can be held together in thought, a critical competence for anyone committed to knowing and acting in and with, not merely of and on, our world.” -- Noortje Marres, author of * Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Invaluable. Any qualitative researchers, not just ethnographers, would benefit from the practical, hands-on protocols, as well as the imaginative and diverse projects the authors reference. No other book I have come across offers more stimulating and practical guidance on undertaking analysis of ethnographic material.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Emily Zimbrick-Rogers * Practical Theology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was continually inspired as I read through this collection of essays and heartened by the willingness of the authors to reveal the inner workings of how ethnographic analysis may unfold. I highly recommend \u003ci\u003eExperimenting with Ethnography \u003c\/i\u003eto anyone who already has a hunch that ethnographic analysis is not an endpoint but rather a stop along the way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Christine Hegel * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Analysis as Experimental Practice \/ Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Bodily Practices and Relocations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tactile Analytics: Touching as a Collective Act \/ Patricia Alvarez Astacio  15\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Ethnographic Hunch \/ Sarah Pink  30\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects \/ George E. Marcus  41\u003cbr\u003e 4. Juxtaposition: Differences That Matter \/ Else Vogel  53\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Physical Objects\u003cbr\u003e 5. Relocating Innovation: Postcards from Three Edges \/ Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and Laura Watts  69\u003cbr\u003e 6. Object Exchange \/ Trine Mygind Korsby and Anthony Stavrianakis  82\u003cbr\u003e 7. Drawing as Analysis: Thinking in Images, Writing in Words \/ Rachel Douglas-Jones 94\u003cbr\u003e 8. Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible \/ Elaine Gan  108\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Infrastructural Play\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives \/ Alberto Corsín Jiménez  123\u003cbr\u003e 10. Multimodal Sorting: The Flow of Images across Social Media and Anthropological Analysis \/ Karen Waltorp  133\u003cbr\u003e 11. Categorize, Recategorize, Repeat \/ Graham M. Jones  151\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sound Recording as Analytic Technique \/ Brit Ross Winthereik and James Maguire  163\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Incommensurabilities\u003cbr\u003e 13. Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) \/ Joseph Dumit  175\u003cbr\u003e 14. Excreting Variously: On Contrasting as an Analytic Technique \/ Justine Laurent, Oliver Human, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Els Roding, Ulrike Scholtes, Marianne de Laet, and Annemarie Mol  186\u003cbr\u003e 15. Facilitating Breakdowns through the Exchange of Perspectives \/ Steffen Dalsgaard  198\u003cbr\u003e 16. Analogy \/ Antonia Walford  209\u003cbr\u003e 17. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices \/ Ivan da Costa Marques  219\u003cbr\u003e 18. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working toward Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Troubles \/ Helen Verran  235\u003cbr\u003e 19. Not Knowing: In the Presence of . . . \/ Marisol de la Cadena  246\u003cbr\u003e Afterword 1. Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making \/ Melanie Ford Lemus and Katie Ulrich  257\u003cbr\u003e Afterword 2. Where Would You Put This Volume? On Thinking with Unruly Companions in the Middle of Things \/ Clément Dréano and Markus Rudolfi  262\u003cbr\u003e References  267\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  287\u003cbr\u003e Index  295","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408992444759,"sku":"9781478011996","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478011996.jpg?v=1730505002","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/experimenting-with-ethnography-9781478011996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}