Time and the field

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    • Dalsgaard, Steffen
    • Nielsen, Morten

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Time and the field

edited by Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen

Berghahn, 2016

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"Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis, volume 57, issue 1."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Time and the Field Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen Chapter 1. Limits and Limitlessness: Exploring Time in Scientific Practice Antonia Walford Chapter 2. The Time of the State and the Temporality of the Gavman in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea Steffen Dalsgaard Chapter 3. Out of Conclusion: On Recurrence and Open-Endedness in Life and Analysis Anne Line Dalsgaard and Martin Demant Frederiksen Chapter 4. Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork Ton Otto Chapter 5. Surfacing Moves: Spatial-Timings of Senior Home Care Peter A. Lutz Chapter 6. Boredom, Rhythm, and the Temporality of Ritual: Recurring Fieldwork in the Brazilian Candomble Inger Sjorslev Chapter 7. Episodic Fieldwork, Updating, and Sociability Michael Whyte Chapter 8. Trans-temporal Hinges: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen Afterword: Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced George Marcus Index

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