Being There
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anthropology
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countertransference
cultural studies
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ethical responsibility
ethics of representation
ethnographic authority
ethnographic encounter
ethnography
fieldwork experience
fragile subject
germany
identification
india
interlocution
morality
morocco
personal experience
power of knowledge
russia
saudi arabia
social structures
speech translation
surrogate ethnography
syria
tanzania
textualism
the canadian arctic
Product details
- ISBN 9780520257764
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In "Being There", John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift attention back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic encounter. From an Inuit village to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork yields important insights outside the reach of textual analysis.
John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi are both Professors of Anthropology at Princeton University. Borneman's most recent book is Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo, and Hammoudi's is A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage.
