Ethnographic Practice in the Present by Marit Melhuus
In its assessment of the current state of play of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of the field pose to contemporary ethnographic methods.-
Being-Here
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Ethnographies of Deservingness
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Policy Worlds
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Ethnographies of Power
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Culture Wars
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Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology
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Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices
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Landscapes Beyond Land
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Grammars of Identity / Alterity
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Family Upheaval
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Being Human, Being Migrant
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World Heritage on the Ground
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Messy Europe
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Moving Places
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Shaping Taxpayers
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Back to the Postindustrial Future
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Economy, Crime, and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
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Knowing How to Know
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Postsocialist Europe
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Power and Magic in Italy
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Going First Class?
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Flexible Capitalism
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Peripheral Vision
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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
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Multiple Medical Realities
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
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Embodying Borders
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Experimental Collaborations
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The Good Holiday
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Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class
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Queer and Trans Life
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Fracturing Resemblances
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Managing Ambiguity
Marit Melhuus is Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her earlier work has been on issues of gender, morality and change in Latin America, and her publications include Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery (co-edited with Kristi Anne Stølen, Verso, 1996). Her current research concerns biotechnology, kinship, and law, and she has published numerous articles on these questions. Recent publications include Holding Worlds Together. Ethnographies of Truth and Belonging (co-edited with Marianne Lien, Berghahn, 2007) and La Norvège, vues de l’intérieur, a special issue of Ethnologie francaise (jointly edited with Sophie Chevalier and Marianne Lien, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857451590 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857451596 |
| Title | Ethnographic Practice in the Present |
| Author | Marit Melhuus |
| Series | Easa Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2011-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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