Serendipity in Anthropological Research : The Nomadic Turn
Haim. Hazan
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (353 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; IntroductionTowards a Nomadic Turn in Anthropology; Part I: Navigation; 1 Errancy in Ethnography and Theory: On the Meaning and Role of 'Discovery' in Anthropological Research; 2 The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities; 3 Seductive Communities: On Non-representational Constructions; 5 Privileged and Volatile Nomadism; 6 Becoming a Triple Stranger: Autoethnography of a Kibbutznik's Long Journey to Discoveries of Researchers' Faults. - 14 Social Science under Siege: The Middle East15 The Suspicious Anthropologist: Documenting my Mother's Holocaust; Part V Oases; 16 The Significance of Colours in Pastoral Bedouin Society; 17 The Structure of Bedouin Society in the Negev: Emanuel Marx's Bedouin of the Negev Revisited; 18 Bones of Contention; 19 Through the Kaleidoscope: Looking Back at the Prison; Index. - 7 Some Cautionary Tales from an Anthropological Romance with Jews from Libya8 Moving Fieldwork: Ethnographic Experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian space; Part III: The Journey; 9 Spiritual Travels, Social Knowledge: Entering the Space of Tuareg Possession; 10 Flying Witches, Embodied Memories, and the Wanderings of an Anthropologist; 11 The Anthropologist as a Nomad in Dangerous Fields and the Emergence of Cultural Criminology; 12 The Straw in Anthropologists' Boots: Studying Nobility in Poland; Part IV: Wandering; 13 The Cosmopolitan Movement of the Global Guest. - Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of studying them, each study producing its own questions and demanding its own methodologies.
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| ISBN | 9781409430582
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