Being There
The Fieldwork Encounter And The Making Of Truth
Editor: JohnBorneman
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Hardback, 288 pages
Size: 235x159 mm
ISBN: 9780520257757
ISBN-10: 0520257758
List price: £32.95
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Being There
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. This title argues that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights.

