Sometime Kin : : Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography / / Sandra Wallman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Wallman, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Perspectives --; Chapter 2. Setting --; Chapter 3. Boundaries --; Chapter 4. Population --; Chapter 5. Children --; Chapter 6. School --; Chapter 7. Money and Property --; Chapter 8. Work --; Chapter 9. Animals --; Chapter 10. Marie --; Chapter 11. Caterina --; Chapter 12. Margherita --; Chapter 13. Martin --; Chapter 14. Twenty-Five Years On --; Ethnographer’s Epilogue --; Cast of Characters --; Glossary of Terms and Expressions --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789203400; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789203400?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sandra Wallman.

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 “truth” are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.