Knowing how to know
Subtitle: fieldwork and the ethnographic present
By: edited by Narmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch and Judith Okely.
Contributors: Halstead, Narmala.; Hirsch, Eric, 1956-; Okely, Judith, 1941-
Series: EASA series -- v. 9
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781845454388; 9781845454777
Subjects: Ethnology -- Fieldwork; Ethnology -- Authorship; Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnologists -- Attitudes
Description: "Through the idea of the 'extended field', this volume examines current issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of ethnographic knowledge construction. It is a text for new fieldworkers, established researchers and those looking for material to support modules on these issues. Nine anthropologists reflect on their experiential processes of knowing by considering how different aspects of fieldwork and the writing-up process informed their accounts. Drawing on both theory and empirical material, this volume actively engages with the dilemmas faced by fieldworkers and relates them to current debates and the notion of crisis in academe, whilst illustrating the complexities of knowing how to know by probing material from different historical periods and various regions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.