Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World,9780415198301

Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415198301
ISBN10: 0415198305
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1999-11-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In an increasingly globalized world, how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing?Constructing the Fieldgathers together diverse case studies from across North America and Europe to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary fieldwork. Contributors give a thorough appraisal of what fieldwork is and should be, challenging the idea of "the field" as an entity separate from the ethnographer's everyday life. Timely, accessible and comprehensive, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Introduction: constructing the field
1(18)
Vered Amit
At `home' and `away': reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology
19(13)
Virginia Caputo
Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children's sports
32(22)
Noel Dyck
Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork
54(17)
Caroline Knowles
The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion
71(25)
Nigel Rapport
`Informants' who come `home'
96(24)
Sarah Pink
Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork `at home'
120(27)
Karin Norman
Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career
147(15)
Helena Wulff
Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational practice
162(33)
Sarah Strauss
Index 195

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