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Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice

By Vincenzo Matera , Angela Biscaldi

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2021
ISBN
9783030517199, 9783030517205
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-51720-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4442518 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XI, 429\426
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Social Sciences; Ethnography; Social Anthropology;

Description

This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it further explores new lines of ethnographic research, including as feminist ethnography and visual research, that uncover non-traditional routes to anthropological knowledge. As the great ethnographer E. E. Evans-Pritchard wrote, “Anyone who is not a complete idiot can do fieldwork… but will [his contribution] be to theoretical, or just to factual knowledge?” As Evans-Pritchard highlights and as this book argues, successful ethnography must be connected to a sophisticated theoretical reflection rooted in social and cultural anthropology.

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