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Navigators of the contemporary : why ethnography matters / David A. Westbrook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226887531
  • 0226887537
  • 128207041X
  • 9781282070417
  • 9786612070419
  • 6612070412
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Navigators of the contemporary.DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 22
LOC classification:
  • GN345 .W47 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; I. Into the Present; Chapter 1. The Venture; Chapter 2. Culture Everywhere and Nowhere; Chapter 3. Conversation as Another Kind of Solution; Chapter 4. This Book and Other Books; II. An Ethnography for Present Situations; Chapter 5. What?; Chapter 6. Where?; Chapter 7. Who?; Chapter 8. When?; Chapter 9. How?; Chapter 10. Why?; III. In the University; Chapter 11. Rupture and Continuity; Chapter 12. Theory; Chapter 13. Fieldwork; Chapter 14. Writing; Chapter 15. One Discipline among Others; IV. In the World; Chapter 16. The Intellectual's Situation.
Summary: As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist--ethnography--can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethnography as an.
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Acknowledgments; I. Into the Present; Chapter 1. The Venture; Chapter 2. Culture Everywhere and Nowhere; Chapter 3. Conversation as Another Kind of Solution; Chapter 4. This Book and Other Books; II. An Ethnography for Present Situations; Chapter 5. What?; Chapter 6. Where?; Chapter 7. Who?; Chapter 8. When?; Chapter 9. How?; Chapter 10. Why?; III. In the University; Chapter 11. Rupture and Continuity; Chapter 12. Theory; Chapter 13. Fieldwork; Chapter 14. Writing; Chapter 15. One Discipline among Others; IV. In the World; Chapter 16. The Intellectual's Situation.

As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist--ethnography--can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethnography as an.

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