Full Description
In 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.
Contents
Introduction
Jon P. Mitchell
Chapter 1. Ethnography and Memory
Johannes Fabian
Chapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free Passage
Judith Okely
Chapter 3. Bringing ethnography home? Costs and benefits of methodological traffic across disciplines
Thomas Widlok
Chapter 4. Ethnography at the interface: 'corporate social responsibility' as an anthropological field of inquiry
Christina Garsten
Chapter 5. Notes From Within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of Anthropological Method
George E. Marcus
Chapter 6. Making Ethics
Sharon Macdonald
Chapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian Anthropology
Alexei Elfimov
Chapter 8. Getting the ethnography 'right': On female circumcision in exile
Aud Talle
Chapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal research in the Cross River region
Ute Röschenthaler
Chapter 10. Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of responses to AIDS
Cristiana Bastos
Chapter 11. Ethnography in motion: shifting fields on airport grounds
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
Epilogue I: Re-Presenting Anthropology
Simon Coleman
Epilogue II: Prelude to a Re-functioned Ethnography
Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
Bibliography
Index
