The Ethnographic Self as Resource : : Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography / / ed. by Peter Collins, Anselma Gallinat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Amit, Vered,; Coleman, Simon,; Collins, Peter,; Davis, Dona Lee,; Davis, Dorothy I.,; Dyck, Noel,; Fernandez, James W.,; Gallinat, Anselma,; Kohn, Tamara,; Larsen, Anne Kathrine,; Nadel-Klein, Jane,; Phipps, Alison,; Rapport, Nigel,; Skinner, Jonathan,; Šikić-Mićanovic, Lynette,
• HerausgeberIn: Collins, Peter,; Gallinat, Anselma,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography and shows how anthropologists can include their memories and experiences as ethnographic data in their writing. It discusses issues such as authenticity, translation and ethics in relation to the self, and offers a new perspective on doing ethnographic fieldwork.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- Chapter 1 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE: AN INTRODUCTION -- PART I BEING SELF AND OTHER: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT HOME -- Chapter 2 PLAYING THE NATIVE CARD: THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS INFORMANT IN EASTERN GERMANY -- Chapter 3 FOREGROUNDING THE SELF IN FIELDWORK AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN CROATIA -- Chapter 4 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ‘ENCHANTMENTS’ OF VILLAGE LIFE, OR WHOSE STORY IS THIS? -- Chapter 5 THE ETHICS OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK IN ENGLAND -- PART II WORKING ON/WITH/THROUGH MEMORY -- Chapter 6 ETHNOGRAPHERS AS LANGUAGE LEARNERS: FROM OBLIVION AND TOWARDS AN ECHO -- Chapter 7 LEADING QUESTIONS AND BODY MEMORIES: A CASE OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHYSICAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE DANCE INTERVIEW -- Chapter 8 DUALLING MEMORIES: TWINSHIP AND THE DISEMBODIMENT OF IDENTITY -- Chapter 9 REMEMBERING AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CHILDREN’S SPORTS -- Chapter 10 GARDENING IN TIME: HAPPINESS AND MEMORY IN AMERICAN HORTICULTURE -- PART III ETHNOGRAPHIC SELVES THROUGH TIME -- Chapter 11 THE ROLE OF SERENDIPITY AND MEMORY IN EXPERIENCING FIELDS -- Chapter 12 SERENDIPITIES, UNCERTAINTIES AND IMPROVISATIONS IN MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION -- Chapter 13 ON REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN WRITING AND FIELDWORK -- Chapter 14 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SELF AS RESOURCE? -- Chapter 15 EPILOGUE: WHAT A STORY WE ANTHROPOLOGISTS HAVE TO TELL! -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX