Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Marit Melhuus is Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her earlier work has been on issues of gender, morality and change in Latin America, and her publications include Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery (co-edited with Kristi Anne Stølen, Verso, 1996). Her current research concerns biotechnology, kinship, and law, and she has published numerous articles on these questions. Recent publications include Holding Worlds Together. Ethnographies of Truth and Belonging (co-edited with Marianne Lien, Berghahn, 2007) and La Norvège, vues de l’intérieur, a special issue of Ethnologie francaise (jointly edited with Sophie Chevalier and Marianne Lien, 2009).

• IntroductionJon P. MitchellChapter 1. Ethnography and MemoryJohannes FabianChapter 2. Fieldwork as Free Association and Free PassageJudith OkelyChapter 3. Bringing ethnography home? Costs and benefits of methodological traffic across disciplinesThomas WidlokChapter 4. Ethnography at the interface: ‘corporate social responsibility’ as an anthropological field of inquiryChristina GarstenChapter 5. Notes From Within a Laboratory for the Reinvention of Anthropological MethodGeorge E. MarcusChapter 6. Making EthicsSharon MacdonaldChapter 7. Ethnographic Practices and Methods: Some Predicaments of Russian AnthropologyAlexei ElfimovChapter 8. Getting the ethnography ‘right’: On female circumcision in exileAud TalleChapter 9. An Ethnography of Associations? Translocal research in the Cross River regionUte RöschenthalerChapter 10. Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of responses to AIDSCristiana BastosChapter 11. Ethnography in motion: shifting fields on airport groundsDimitra Gefou-MadianouEpilogue I: Re-Presenting AnthropologySimon ColemanEpilogue II: Prelude to a Re-functioned EthnographyDouglas R. Holmes and George E. MarcusBibliographyIndex