Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology

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Roger Sanjek
Cornell University Press, 1990 - 429 pages

Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures--Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead--and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts, especially ethnographies. Unique in conception, this volume contributes importantly to current debates on writing, texts, and reflexivity in anthropology.

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Table des matières

Living with Fieldnotes
1
Fire Loss and the Sorcerers Apprentice
34
Unpacking Fieldnotes
45
On Reading Fieldnotes
71
A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes
92
Fieldnote Practice
137
On the Measurement Potential of
161
The Secret Life of Fieldnotes
187
Adventures with Fieldnotes
290
On the Use of Other Ethnographers
303
Fieldnotes and Others
324
From Fieldnotes to Ethnography
341
Appropriating Someone
356
Fieldnotes Filed Notes and the Conferring of Note
371
On Ethnographic Validity
385
Index
419

Fieldnotes in Circulation
271

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À propos de l'auteur (1990)

Roger Sanjek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the the author of The Future of Us All and the editor of Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, both from Cornell.

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