Sometime Kin
Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19008065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra Wallman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 186 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Sometime Kin (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books, Incorporated (PUBLISHER) |
| OpenAlex | W3122227153 |
| Open Library | OL53256520M |
| ISBN | 9781789203400 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | 0yywDwAAQBAJ |
| Language | EN |
In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and "truth" are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise
Archaeology · Ethnography · Genealogy · Next of kin · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Ethnology · Fieldwork · Italy · Manners and customs · Participant observation · Social life and customs
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |