... on literary models, but could not appear to be writing literature. The central example is an archive of some eight hundred auto-ethnographies produced by elite West African students at the William Ponty School from 1933 to 1950. In order to graduate, students wrote ethnographies of their communities over...

...This chapter focuses on the ethnography of a community meeting organized by the UPM in the township. At first glance, it seems to confirm the existence of a political form peculiar to the populations of the lower-class neighborhoods: “popular politics.” This part of the book, however, calls...

... Brunetière Ferdinand Curtius Ernst Sainte Beuve Taine Hyppolite Abdül Hamid Auto-ethnography Folklore Nation-inventing process The Native Ethnographic archeology Khachatur Abovean (1809–1848) is the favorite author of those who produce nationalistic discourse among Armenians. He enjoys extraordinary...

...The Politics of the Near invites the reader to explore social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa, but in a somewhat unusual way. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people's movement fighting...

... that created Moroccanness, the feeling of participating in the ongoing formations of Moroccan public relationality. Rather than furthering the discourse about Morocco’s conflict between liberal secularists and religious conservatives, this ethnography shows the subtle range of ideologies and practices evoked...

... ethnography Foucault Michel human partition of India psychiatry scenes truth violence word s boundaries concepts context culture indexical map meaning name nonsense water cruelty Laugier Sandra reality signs body duration ghosts person grammatical first second third politics time...

...The author, a non-Catholic anthropologist of religion, raises some questions and concerns that have come up for her as an ethnographer who focuses on lived Christianities in the United States. She is convinced that the field of Catholic Studies can learn much from the history and ethnography...

... revises property as poetic/spiritual enclosures that highlight ways of apprehending the land without possessing it as enclosed commons. It also outlines a practice of political theory that is less concept-centric. As we shift back and forth between the registers of theory and ethnography, economy can...

...In a trajectory that leads from man in the state of nature to the emergence of the primitive in the science of anthropology, the generalizations of ethnography have infiltrated the philosophical discourses of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas. In a series of complex mimetic gestures and equally...

...Ethnography might also serve as a “chronography,” a thick and textured accounting of time that captures the vernacular feel of place, temporality, and durations. Discourse analysis and ethnography of the Philippines call-center industry depict how the offshore identity agents emerge from partial...

... imperialism 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement EDCA gender state sanctioned violence black Americans black studies ethnography Filipinx American history and culture hypervisibility As both a member of the Black Filipinx Amerasian ¹ community (a population born from the union...

... grant s attachment ethnography township violence It is a July morning, and a dozen of us, women and men, are sitting on uncomfortable benches in one of the rooms of the High Court in Grahamstown. It is a dark, somewhat narrow room; its walls are covered with dark brown wood. Caught up in the silence...

... of self-selection and induction, had become leaders. My ambition in this ethnography was to account for the fullness of some young men's experiences in standing against the apartheid state to the extent that that is possible and that I am able to achieve it within the loose confines of the discipline...

... a basis for reappraising canonical tropes of voice in narrative theory, media theory, and the phenomenology of reading. Conrad’s novelistic writing becomes critical when read in relation to emergent sound technologies, the phonograph and ethnography, both of which simultaneously depended on the oral while...

... Puerto Ricans white flight announcements bus ethnography Gay Catholics love MBTA virtue baptism Christ communion ecclesiology ecology of practice colorblindness eschatology lived theology mission pluralism racial justice ambiguity embodiment Gaudium et Spes Holy Week locus...