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Author: Robin James Smith Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1787147738 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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This volume explores ethnographic projects that were planned but never happened, and reports on the methodological lessons researchers can learn, as well as how they can gain fresh energy and social science insight from apparent rejection.
Author: Robin James Smith Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1787147738 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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This volume explores ethnographic projects that were planned but never happened, and reports on the methodological lessons researchers can learn, as well as how they can gain fresh energy and social science insight from apparent rejection.
Author: Kristen Ghodsee Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822351021 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 226
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Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past.
Author: Robin James Smith Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1787439313 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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This volume explores ethnographic projects that were planned but never happened, and reports on the methodological lessons researchers can learn, as well as how they can gain fresh energy and social science insight from apparent rejection.
Author: Gabriele Schwab Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 023115948X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 239
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Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture" -- one that makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world -- Schwab pioneers a compelling approach to reading literary texts as "anthropologies of the future" that challenge habitual productions of meaning and knowledge. Schwab's study draws on anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis to trace literature's profound impact on the cultural imaginary. Following a new interpretation of Derrida's and Lévi-Strauss's famous controversy over the indigenous Nambikwara, Schwab explores the vicissitudes of "traveling literature" through novels and films that fashion a cross-cultural imaginary. She also examines the intricate links between colonialism, cannibalism, melancholia, the fate of disenfranchised children under the forces of globalization, and the intertwinement of property and personhood in the neoliberal imaginary. Schwab concludes with an exploration of discourses on the posthuman, using Samuel Beckett's "The Lost Ones" and its depiction of a future lived under the conditions of minimal life. Drawing on a wide range of theories, Schwab engages the productive intersections between literary studies and anthropology, underscoring the power of literature to shape culture, subjectivity, and life.
Author: Kirin Narayan Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226568180 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 170
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Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In this book, the author introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov.
Author: Paul Stoller Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812203143 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 199
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Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and for the discipline itself. The Taste of Ethnographic Things describes how, through long-term participation in the lives of the Songhay of Niger, Stoller eventually came to his senses. Taken together, the separate chapters speak to two important and integrated issues. The first is methodological—all the chapters demonstrate the rewards of long-term study of a culture. The second issue is how he became truer to the Songhay through increased sensual awareness.
Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon Publisher: Schocken ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 456
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Twenty-two stories by a Jewish writer. The story, The Sign, is on his vanished Polish village, Between Two Towns is on the complacency of German Jews prior to the holocaust, and Hill of Sand is on his early years in Palestine.
Author: Olivia Angé Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782384545 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 244
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Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of remembering.
Author: James Reid Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1787146537 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 188
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This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood in social research. IE is a sociological sub-discipline developed by Dorothy E. Smith that seeks to explicate the textual mediation of people’s everyday experiences in their local sites of being.
Author: Robin James Smith
Author: Robin James Smith
Author: Kristen Ghodsee
Author: Robin James Smith
Author: Gabriele Schwab
Author: Kirin Narayan
Author: Paul Stoller
Author: Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Author: Kamala Visweswaran
Author: Olivia Angé
Author: James Reid