Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Bibliographic Data

ID19906489
EditorsNarmala Halstead, Eric Hirsch (0000-0003-0365-9372), Judith Okely
Year2008
Pages210
Publication date2008-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueKnowing how to know (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/9781845454388
OpenAlexW4399614033
Open LibraryOL16774165M
ISBN9781845454388
LanguageEN
Citations received20

This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place? Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the embodied knowledge of ballet performers, and from ignorance about post-colonial ritual innovations by the anthropologist in highland Papua to the skilled visions of slow food producers in Italy. It is a key text for new fieldworkers as much as for established researchers. The anthropological insights developed here are of interdisciplinary relevance: cultural studies scholars, sociologists and historians will be as interested as anthropologists in this re-evaluation of fieldwork and the project of ethnography

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