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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amit, Vered
• Coleman, Simon
• Collins, Peter
• Collins, Peter[Herausgeber]
• Davis, Dona Lee
• Davis, Dorothy I
• Dyck, Noel
• Fernandez, James W
• Gallinat, Anselma
• Gallinat, Anselma[Herausgeber]
• Kohn, Tamara
• Larsen, Anne Kathrine
• Nadel-Klein, Jane
• Phipps, Alison
• Rapport, Nigel
• Skinner, Jonathan
• Šikić-Mićanovic, Lynette

Titel

The Ethnographic Self as Resource : Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2010]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography and shows how anthropologists can include their memories and experiences as ethnographic data in their writing. It discusses issues such as authenticity, translation and ethics in relation to the self, and offers a new perspective on doing ethnographic fieldwork