When they read what we write : the politics of ethnography / edited by Caroline B. Brettell
- Bib ID:
- 2779878
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1993
- viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0897893255 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Fieldwork, Text, and Audience / Caroline B. Brettell
- Pt. I. Contested Texts: Implications for Fieldwork and Rapport. 1. Unintended Consequences: The Myth of "The Return" in Anthropological Fieldwork / Dona L. Davis. 2. Responding to the Anthropologist: When the Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad Read What I Write about Them / Stephen D. Glazier
- Pt. II. Politicized Texts: Insider, Outsider, and Ethnographic Authority. 3. Involvement, Detachment, and Representation on Corsica / Alexandra Jaffe. 4. Fieldwork in Quebec, Scholarly Reviews, and Anthropological Dialogues / Richard Handler. 5. The Student of Culture and the Ethnography of Irish Intellectuals / Elizabeth A. Sheehan
- Pt. III. Mediated Texts: Issues of Representation and Identity. 6. Whose History Is It? Selection and Representation in the Creation of a Text / Caroline B. Brettell. 7. When They Read What the Papers Say We Wrote / Ofra Greenberg.
- Pt. IV. Collaborative Texts: Ethics, Negotiation, and Compromise. 8. Is Anonymity Possible? Writing about Refugees in the United States / Marycarol Hopkins. 9. Just Stories of Ethnographic Authority / Richard P. Horwitz. 10. Myths of Objectivity and the Collaborative Process in Life History Research / Sally McBeth. 11. The Case of Mistaken Identity: Problems in Representing Women on the Right / Faye Ginsburg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Brettell, Caroline
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