Improvising Theory Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork

Name: Improvising Theory Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork
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ISBN: 9780226100319

ISBN-10: 0226100316

ISBN-13: 9780226100319

Edition: 2007

Authors: Allaine Cerwonka, Liisa H. Malkki

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Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy. Improvising Theorycenters on the…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Nervous Conditions: The Stakes in Interdisciplinary Research



The Fulbright Proposal


Fieldwork Correspondence



Tradition and Improvisation in Ethnographic Field Research



References


Index