Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:229 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:186
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789203394

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

"This is an arresting autobiography by an influential British woman anthropologist. Sandra Wallman addresses practical, emotional as well as academic issues around the experience of bringing her family - husband and four young children - to the field in Bellino, a small isolated commune in the Italian alps, in the early 1970s." Helena Wulff, Stockholm University

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. PerspectivesChapter 2. SettingChapter 3. BoundariesChapter 4. PopulationChapter 5. ChildrenChapter 6. SchoolChapter 7. Money and PropertyChapter 8. WorkChapter 9. AnimalsChapter 10. MarieChapter 11. CaterinaChapter 12. MargheritaChapter 13. MartinChapter 14. Twenty-five Years OnEthnographer's EpilogueCast of CharactersGlossaryReferencesIndex