Sometime Kin
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act as participant observers
Author_Sandra Wallman
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challenges of multi vocality
culture
distorts ordinary life observed
economy
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ethnographic enterprise
history
intrusion of observation
portrait of alpine settlement
resistance to outsiders and modernization
two way process of research
villagers embrace four small children
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- ISBN 9781789203394
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer's four small children. Sandra Wallman's account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by the intrusion of the anthropologist and the effect of informants observing her. Though the fieldwork happened more than forty years ago, the challenges of multi-vocality, the indeterminacy of `truth' and the layers of memory which comprise ethnography apply equally to many anthropological projects.
Sandra Wallman is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology (Routledge, 1992) and The Capability of Places (Pluto, 2011).
