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Published: 24 January 2023
... reservoir ecologies ethnography everyday life interdisciplinarity water Water is within us and it flows through our bodies, our worlds and our words. The liquid connections between the contributors and contributions within this collection bind us and our work together. But this book – a book about...
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Exeunt omnes!! The case for bad exits in ethnography
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Sally Campbell Galman
Published: 04 July 2023
... snipped into place – do not work in the context of awkward human relationships, the fluid and unending field, and the fruitful, beautiful but complicated ethnographic mess. This chapter tells the story of the necessity of the ‘bad exit’ in childhood ethnography. Making a ‘bad exit’ is defined...
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Those who never leave us
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Jessica Nina Lester and Allison Daniel Anders
Published: 04 July 2023
...Over a four-year period, we engaged in a community-based post-critical ethnography in Riverhill – a mid-sized city located in southern Appalachia in the United States. Beginning in 2007, a non-profit organization placed Burundians in public housing projects in Riverhill. Through English as a Second...
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Published: 04 July 2023
... was observational team ethnography. The other involved a fieldworker with a single informant, in interview and tutorial activity. A tutorial, through which a seller of The Big Issue instructed the fieldworker to use pedestrian flows as a resource, is not subject to the reductions of positional reflexivity. Instead...
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Max Gluckman’s commitments, projects and legacies
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Richard Werbner
Published: 10 June 2020
... interdisciplinary best. 16 Among philosophers, the debate intensified in the 1960s, with works reprinted in the 1970s ( Winch 1972 [1964] ; MacIntyre 1981 [1967] ). As Stanley Tambiah wryly remarks, ‘it was an occasion when modern philosophers dipped into exotic anthropological ethnography to argue...
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Participation in the machinic city
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Marcos P. Dias
Published: 23 March 2021
... ethnography narrative participation Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Jacques Rancière Rimini Protokoll spectator translation In order to analyse how participation unfolds through digitally mediated performance art events, I turn back to Dixon’s argument (discussed in Chapter 1 ) about the introversion...
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Conclusion
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Saskia Huc-Hepher
Published: 01 June 2021
...The Conclusion reflects on the book as a whole and considers how major changes to the London diasporic space, instigated by the post-2016 political landscape, renders it a work of contemporary history as much as ethnography. It underscores the distinctiveness of the migrant group examined...
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The Absurdity of Bureaucracy: How Implementation Works
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Nina Holm Vohnsen
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 18 June 2017
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The third tendency in cinema
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David MacDougall
Published: 01 March 2019
... and then be communicated in tacit ways to the viewer. Visual anthropology has been influenced by these moves through recent films attempting to create a sensory ethnography. This ‘sensory turn’ suggests the possibility of a cinema of consciousness that more fully reflects our experiences of everyday life. camera editing...
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Anthropology and the cinematic imagination
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David MacDougall
Published: 01 March 2019
... immediate and rounded view, but ethnographic cinema confirmed it, making a significant contribution to anthropology as a whole. anthropology consciousness editing in films Eisenstein Sergei ethnography filmmaking Griffith D W history Hitchcock Alfred imagination Kuleshov Lev Lang Fritz Marcus...
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Anthropological filmmaking: an empirical art
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David MacDougall
Published: 01 March 2019
... is the filmmaker’s relation to the viewer, and ways of making the filmmaker’s intentions and practice more evident within the film. anthropology commentary in films documentary film environments ethnographic films ethnography film filmmaking knowledge music performance social experience sound in film...
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Gestures and positions
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Rick Peterson
Published: 01 June 2019
... Scaloria Prestatyn Early Neolithic burial Cattedown Cave George Rock Shelter Pontnewydd Cave An Corran Temple Cave Neolithic Burial Funerary Archaeology Intermediary period Secondary burial Ethnography Taphonomy Cave sedimentology In Nicolas Cauwe’s (2004, 220) review of the Neolithic...
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Conclusions
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Degnen Cathrine
Published: 01 October 2012
...Chapter Seven, the concluding chapter, ties the book’s themes together. It offers a series of reflections on the ethnographic method and older age by directly addressing this thematic strand that weaves throughout the volume. In particular, it considers the merits of ethnography, and the challenges...
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The prodigal son: parables of return
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Paul Carter
Published: 21 December 2021
...One object of a migrant ethnography is to establish migration as an end in itself: the migrant generates the meaning of a life from the quality of the journey, not from its beginning or ending. A corollary of this is that the migrant’s identifying ‘story’ is not given: it is produced by the journey...
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Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 31 July 2012
... - Manchester United, Blackpool and the England national team. This accessible account follows these groups home and abroad, describing their interpretations, motivations and behaviour and challenging a number of the myths about ‘hooliganism’ and crowd control. An Ethnography of English Football Fans ...
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Published: 30 August 2017
..., explaining the idea of ‘salvage ethnography’, as the study of disappearing culture in the face social change. It argues that historical perspective changes our understanding of ethnographic material, concluding with a summary of the chapters to come. economic crisis of 2008 ‘ethnographic present’ identity...
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Ritual performance and belonging
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Marianne Holm Pedersen
Published: 31 March 2014
... intergenerational relations Löfgren Orvar cartoon crisis Henkel Heiko Jenkins Richard Kublitz Anja Larsson Göran Lindekilde Lasse Rytter Mikkel Danish People’s Party elections migration Nielsen Jørgen S Abu Lughod Lila migration studies Migration Belonging Ethnography Localisation Everyday life...
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Published: 01 September 2015
...; therefore this chapter is based on twelve auto-ethnographies by unemployed graduates. These auto-ethnographies provide a ‘thick description’ of the deliberately sterile environment, the power-relations implicit in the systems of queueing and hatches for access to officers and even the signage, both formal...
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‘Two branches of the brown Polynesians’ ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality, and the ‘dance of agency’
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Conal McCarthy
Published: 01 December 2015
... Sāmoa League of Nations LON legislation Mau Samoan League Nelson Ta’isi O F Sāmoa Department of External Affairs police Sāmoa Ethnography Peter Buck (Te Rangihiroa) Āpirana Ngata New Zealand policy In the pre-dawn dark, a ship anchored off the shore of a Pacific island. Passengers could see...
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Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Published: 01 March 2016
...This interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of the Sensory Ethnography at Harvard University reflects on the film ‘Sweetgrass’ he made in 2009 about the last migration of sheep through Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range. It is an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West...