Sometime Kin (eBook)

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

Sandra Wallman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
186 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-340-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and "e;truth"e; are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: act as participant observers • Bellino • challenges of multi vocality • Challenges of Multi-vocality • Culture • distorts ordinary life observed • economy • ethnographic enterprise • Family and Anthropology • History • intrusion of observation • Italian alps • Italy • portrait of alpine settlement • resistance to outsiders and modernization • two way process of research • villagers embrace four small children
• ISBN-10: 1-78920-340-6 / 1789203406
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-340-0 / 9781789203400