| Author | : Daniel Garrison Brinton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : Ethnology |
| ISBN | : |
Autoethnography
| Author | : Tony E. Adams |
| Publisher | : Understanding Qualitative Rese |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199972095 |
Brimming with examples, this book demonstrates how qualitative researchers can use autoethnography as a method for qualitative research. Topics include a brief history of autoethnography; the purposes and practices of doing autoethnography; interpreting, analyzing, and representing personal experience; and evaluating autoethnographic work.
Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations
| Author | : John V. Murra |
| Publisher | : Hau |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Andes Region |
| ISBN | : 9780997367553 |
John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here--which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica--he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes a study of Andean ecology with an exploration of the ideal of economic self-sufficiency, stressing two foundational socioeconomic forces: reciprocity and redistribution. He shows how both enabled Andean communities to realize direct control of a maximum number of vertically ordered ecological floors and the resources they offered. He famously called this arrangement a "vertical archipelago," a revolutionary model that is still examined and debated almost fifty years after it was first presented in these lecture. Written in a crisp and elegant style and inspired by decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this set of lectures is nothing less than a lost classic, and it will be sure to inspire new generations of anthropologists and historians working in South America and beyond.
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
| Author | : Jadran Mimica |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2007-05-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0857456946 |
Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the intersubjective (social) reality of any given cultural life-world is a vital domain of anthropological and sociological inquiry and understanding.
Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography
| Author | : Daniel G. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2019-11-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
In 'Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography' by Daniel G. Brinton, this seminal work delves into the intricate study of human races and their impact on the development of civilizations. Through a combination of meticulous research and detailed analysis, Brinton explores the origins, characteristics, and classifications of different races, providing a comprehensive overview of the field of ethnography. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, the book presents a wealth of information that is both informative and thought-provoking. Brinton's exploration of the subject is situated within the larger context of 19th-century scientific thought, illustrating how prevailing ideas about race and ethnicity influenced scholarly discourse during this period. As a pioneering figure in the field of ethnography, Brinton's expertise and passion for the subject shine through in this groundbreaking work, making it essential reading for anyone interested in the study of human diversity and cultural evolution. 'Races and Peoples' is a compelling and enlightening read that offers valuable insights into the complex tapestry of human societies and the factors that shape them.
The Predicament of Culture
| Author | : James Clifford |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1988-05-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0674698436 |
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group’s identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and “the other” clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In chapters devoted to the history of anthropology, Clifford discusses the work of Malinowski, Mead, Griaule, Lévi-Strauss, Turner, Geertz, and other influential scholars. He also explores the affinity of ethnography with avant-garde art and writing, recovering a subversive, self-reflexive cultural criticism. The surrealists’ encounters with Paris or New York, the work of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris in the Collège de Sociologie, and the hybrid constructions of recent tribal artists offer provocative ethnographic examples that challenge familiar notions of difference and identity. In an emerging global modernity, the exotic is unexpectedly nearby, the familiar strangely distanced.
For Ethnography
| Author | : Paul Atkinson |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2014-12-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1473910706 |
"This text is something of a masterclass in its own right. Few are as well placed to comment on the debates surrounding ethnography – debates which the author had been instrumental in shaping – and to offer a clear and authoritative call-to-arms to future, aspirant ethnographers. It is a passionate but realistic manifesto for those wishing to undertake the craft of ethnography and to do it well. All who read it will benefit." - Sam Hillyard, Durham University This major book from one of the world’s foremost authorities recaptures the classic inspirations of ethnographic fieldwork in sociology and anthropology, reflecting on decades of methodological development and empirical research. It is part manifesto, part guidance on the appropriate focus of the ethnographic gaze. Throughout Atkinson insists that ethnographic research must be faithful to the intrinsic and complex organization of everyday life. An attempt to rescue ethnography from contemporary ‘qualitative’ research, the book is a corrective to the corrosive effects of postmodernism on the analysis of social organization and social action. Atkinson affirms the value of fieldwork, while incorporating contemporary perspectives on social analysis. Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University, where he is also Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics.
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
| Author | : Surekha Davies |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-06-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316546128 |
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could – or should – be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.
Out of the Study and Into the Field
| Author | : Robert Parkin |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Anthropology |
| ISBN | : 9781845456955 |
Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects.
