Anthropologists in a Wider World
Essays on Field Research
The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative methodologies. Others have lived through these changes of perspective and are able to reflect on them, while re-evaluating the place of fieldwork within the broader aims of general anthropology. This book explores these transformations of world view and approach as they have been experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began their…
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Weitere Autoren: James, Wendy (Hrsg.) / Parkin, David J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57181-799-0
- EAN: 9781571817990
- Produktnummer: 16452140
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.1 cm 547 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 547
Über den Autor
David Parkin has carried out field research in East Africa since 1962, much of it while at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Current research interests include Islam, medical anthropology, socio-material prosthesis, and cross-cultural rhetorics. He is the Director of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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