Ethnography in Today's World

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Color Full Before Color Blind

AvRoger Sanjek

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Engelska, 2013

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In Ethnography in Today's World, Roger Sanjek examines the genre and practice of ethnography from a historical perspective, from its nineteenth-century beginnings and early twentieth-century consolidation, through political reorientations during the 1960s and the impact of feminism and postmodernism in later decades, to its current outlook in an increasingly urban world. Drawing on a career of ethnographic research across Brazil, Ghana, New York City, and with the Gray Panthers, Sanjek probes politics and rituals in multiethnic New York, the dynamics of activist meetings, human migration through the ages, and shifting conceptions of race in the United States. He interrogates well-known works from Boas, Whyte, Fabian, Geertz, Marcus, and Clifford, as well as less celebrated researchers, addressing methodological concerns from ethnographers' reliance on assistants in the formative days of the discipline to contemporary comparative issues and fieldwork and writing strategies.Ethnography in Today's World contributes to our understanding of culture and society in an age of globalization. These provocative examinations of the value of ethnographic research challenge conventional views as to how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, contextualized, and communicated to academic audiences and the twenty-first-century public.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-14
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780812208764
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
Serie:Haney Foundation Series

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Roger Sanjek is a J. I. Staley Prize winner, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and the author and editor of many books, including Gray Panthers, which is also available from University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Race (edited with Steven Gregory), and The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.

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"Roger Sanjek is a distinguished sociocultural anthropologist whose vision of anthropology has shaped the field in significant ways. Ethnography in Today's World is part history of ideas, part memoir, part cultural criticism, and all affirmation of ethnography's particular value for anyone trying to navigate the turbulent cross-currents of social knowledge-making in the United States today."-Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University "Ethnography in Today's World shows its author's admirable combination of personal commitments, curiosity about real human lives, intellectual integrity, and long-term scholarly overview. For anyone interested in anthropology as a complicatedly evolving, living research tradition, with its own tendencies always in interaction with a changing world, this is an important book to read."-Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University

Innehållsförteckning

PrefacePART I. ENGAGING ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York CityChapter 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in QueensChapter 3. What Ethnographies Leave OutPART II. ETHNOGRAPHY, PAST AND PRESENTChapter 4. EthnographyChapter 5. Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their EthnographersChapter 6. The Ethnographic PresentPART III. COMPARISON AND CONTEXTUALIZATIONChapter 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political ActivismChapter 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in AmericaChapter 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to FuturePART IV. ETHNOGRAPHY AND SOCIETYChapter 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural ThingsChapter 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing WorldChapter 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of EthnographyNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments