Constructing the Field

Constructing the Field is a timely contribution to a highly topical debate. Accessible and comprehensive, it will be an essential resource for both students and scholars of anthropology.

Klappentext
In an increasingly globalized world, how is the nature of ethnographic fieldwork changing? "Constructing the Field" gathers together diverse case studies from across North America and Europe to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary fieldwork. Contributors give a thorough appraisal of what fieldwork is and should be, challenging the idea of "the field" as an entity separate from the ethnographer's everyday life. Timely, accessible and comprehensive, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of anthropology.

Inhalt
List of contributors, 1 Introduction: constructing the field, 2 At 'home' and 'away': reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology, 3 Home field advantage? Exploring the social construction of children's sports, 4 Here and there: doing transnational fieldwork, 5 The narrative as fieldwork technique: processual ethnography for a world in motion, 6 'Informants' who come 'home', 7 Phoning the field: meanings of place and involvement in fieldwork 'at home', 8 Access to a closed world: methods for a multilocale study on ballet as a career, 9 Locating yoga: ethnography and transnational Practice, Index