Dislocating anthropology? : bases of longing and belonging in the analysis of contemporary societies

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Dislocating anthropology? : bases of longing and belonging in the analysis of contemporary societies

edited by Simon Coleman and Peter Collins

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Anthropology continues to develop both in terms of theory and in relation to the ways in which fieldwork is conducted. Dislocating Anthropology? seeks to capture and represent these developments through a collection of ethnographic essays that are cutting edge, but which do not represent a complete break with what has gone before. In recent years anthropologists have increasingly come to accept that fieldwork in bounded and discrete places is no longer tenable. People can no longer be represented in these static, parochial terms. At the start of the 21st century, and with the possibility of internet connections almost anywhere, we have the potential to move even when we are stationary. Each of the contributors to this collection have identified and attempted to understand sets of relationships that are both temporally and spatially dynamic, that appear to flow into and out of 'the field.' Together, the chapters shed light on a number of methodological conundrums, or dislocations, relating, for example, to locality, identity, fieldwork, and reflexivity. The book is concerned with dislocation as both practice and process, and as such extends a theme that has arguably been central to Anthropology since Malinowski's Trobriand ethnography.

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  • NCID
    BB07388183
  • ISBN
    • 9781443828956
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Newcastle
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 161 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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