TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westbrook,David A.
TI  - Navigators of the contemporary: why ethnography matters 
SN  - 9780226887531
AV  - GN345 .W47 2008eb
U1  - 305.8001 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - United States
KW  - Applied anthropology
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Anthropologie appliquée
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Culturele antropologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Relevantie
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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