Sometime kin layers of memory, boundaries of ethnography
Perspectives -- Setting -- Boundaries -- Population -- Children -- School -- Money and property -- Work -- Animals -- Marie -- Caterina -- Margherita -- Martin -- Twenty-five years on
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn Books
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Perspectives -- Setting -- Boundaries -- Population -- Children -- School -- Money and property -- Work -- Animals -- Marie -- Caterina -- Margherita -- Martin -- Twenty-five years on "In Sometime Kin Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this, journal extracts show the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed; that the challenges of multi-vocality and 'truth' are always with us; and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 174 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781789203394 978-1-78920-339-4 |