Knowing How to Know by Narmala Halstead
Through the idea of the extended field, this volume examines issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides fresh insights into the problems of ethnographic knowledge construction. It is a key text for new fieldworkers, established researchers and those looking for material to support modules on these issues.-
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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Ethnographic Practice in the Present
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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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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
“This book is an important stimulus to ongoing debate, and showcases some of the best of recent approaches and challenges to the ways we know what we know” · Ethos
Narmala Halstead is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship by this university. She was a lecturer at Cardiff University and also taught at Brunel University. She has carried out research in Guyana, the U.S. and the UK . She has published numerous articles examining fieldwork encounters, belonging, violence and related issues.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845454388 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845454383 |
| Title | Knowing How to Know |
| Author | Narmala Halstead |
| Series | Easa Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2008-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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